Trump 47: Environment

For the past three years, the Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) has collaborated with the federal government to produce a national youth climate statement outlining recommendations for the how the U.S. should deal with spiraling concerns, from rising temperatures to more extreme weather events.

South Florida weather experts and members of congress are sounding the alarm over a proposed $2.2 billion dollar cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under President Trump's 2026 fiscal year budget.

The measure ends tax incentives that pay for nearly a third of the cost of installing solar panels. Maggie Shober and Stan Cross of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy say the change may threaten thousands of jobs.

The firing of the only two park rangers to watch over manatees at a federal reserve incensed Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity, so he sued.

On "The Florida Roundup," Tom Hudson spoke with Florida Public Radio Emergency Network chief meteorologist Tim Miller about the federal government's role in weather forecasting and communicating dangers.

The federal government moved to end its lease for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Jacksonville, headquarters of the Jacksonville district and home to about 800 of the nearly 1,100 Florida-based employees.

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

Protections on ship speeds in the Gulf were removed by the Trump administration in areas where the endangered Rice's whale is known to breed.

Pillar corals were supposed to become "endangered" on Tuesday, but that was before a recent freeze pushed it back to March.

As the chair of a federal task force, Key West businessman Ed Russo makes suggestions directly to President Trump — whom he calls an '"environmental hero" — and shapes federal environmental policy. He tells WLRN what the president's approach to climate change is, why he is "absolutely right" on energy and what "nobody knows" about his work in conservation.