Seven charts show how trump’s climate rollbacks reshaped american environmental policy in one year

Just one year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has fundamentally altered the trajectory of U.S. climate and environmental policy through sweeping rollbacks that touch every corner of the green economy. From withdrawing from international climate agreements to slashing federal enforcement budgets, the administration’s aggressive deregulation agenda has created ripple effects across energy markets, disaster preparedness, and environmental protection.

Seven key data visualizations reveal the scope of these changes. American automakers are losing ground in the global electric vehicle race as federal EV incentives disappear, while Chinese competitors like BYD surge ahead. Despite Trump’s efforts to boost fossil fuels, clean energy continues growing due to market forces, with solar generation rising 27% last year. However, federal disaster resilience spending has plummeted from $500 million quarterly under Biden to below zero as FEMA payments face new approval barriers.

The administration has also gutted environmental enforcement, with EPA civil cases dropping from roughly 40 under previous presidents to just 11 in Trump’s first nine months. Meanwhile, 88 million acres of protected public lands have been opened to oil and gas development, while $1.25 billion in tribal clean energy funding has been terminated or frozen. These policy shifts are already affecting global markets—Trump’s trade war caused U.S. soybean exports to China to collapse, forcing the country to source from Brazil and accelerating Amazon deforestation.

While renewable energy growth continues driven by economics rather than policy, the broader retreat from climate leadership positions America as a follower rather than innovator in the global clean energy transition, with implications that will extend far beyond this administration.