Tracking the Trump Administration
Rollbacks of Climate, Energy, and Environmental Policies and Investments
The first month of the Trump Administration has resulted in a dizzying flurry of actions and reactions. Many of us are wondering how to track the status of these actions, including the legal challenges to these actions.
Luckily, a number of institutions are keeping track of the range of policy and legal actions that are happening. Some have been tracking for some time, while others are new. Below is a guide to some available trackers.
We have collected these on CLEE’s website. We will continue to make updates to this page as additional resources are available. And, we welcome suggestions of other resources to add!
Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
Attorney General Actions Tracker
Maintained by the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law, this tool tracks actions by Attorney Generals since 2017. Cases can be searched by topic, jurisdiction, and other fields.
Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
This tracker is maintained by Just Security, digital law and policy journal. It tracks litigation filed to challenge Trump Administration actions.
Legal Challenges to Biden Administration Energy and Environmental Actions
Maintained by NYU’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, this collects information on legal challenges to energy and environmental actions undertaken during the Biden Administration.
Tracks legal challenges to Trump Administration actions, organized by topic, including climate policy.
Sabin Center Climate Litigation Trackers
The Sabin Center tracks US and global climate litigation, providing links to available court documents.
Tracking Executive and Administrative Actions
An analysis by the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard reviews things to watch in the implementation of five of President Trump’s climate and energy-related executive orders. Actions to implement these orders is being tracked in Harvard’s Regulatory and Environmental Justice Trackers.
Sabin Center Climate Backtracker:
This tracks actions by the Trump Administration to reduce or eliminate climate change actions. It includes announcements, congressional actions, executive orders, guidance, interim rules, memoranda, notices, and secretarial orders. This tracker builds on two earlier trackers hosted by the Sabin Center:
Brookings Institution Regulatory Tracker
Maintained by the Brookings Institution, this tracker reports on regulatory actions across a large suite of policy areas that include climate and the environment, but also transportation, education, health, housing, immigration, and a number of other topics.
Congressional Review Act Tracker
The Center for Congressional Reform is tracking the use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The CRA The tracker is identifying and tracking CRA resolutions pending before Congress.
A joint project between the Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact, this tracks actions to implement actions related to Project 2025 across 20 federal agencies.
The Coalition Group Tracker of Federal Actions
Maintained by a coalition of tribal organizations, this site provides information on executive orders, agency memos, congressional communications, and other early actions by the Trump Administration.
Tracking Climate Investments
Inflation Reduction Act Tracker
Maintained by the Sabin Center and Environmental Defense Fund, this tracker reports on actions related to the Inflation Reduction Act projects. It includes project-specific information as well as broader actions. is linked to the Inflation Reduction Act Database that tracks all of the climate related provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Maintained by Wellesley College, this website tracks over 550 clean energy projects, including some funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The site tracks how specific projects have progressed or not in the Trump Administration.
Attacks on Science
Joint project of the Sabin Center at Columbia University and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund that tracks reductions in research and education funding and limitations on publishing or sharing scientific studies. Tracks actions back to 2016.
General Tracking of Trump Administration Actions