{"id":68062,"date":"2026-03-04T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-has-launched-an-unprecedented-assault-on-the-environment-wheres-the-pushback\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:59:25","slug":"trump-has-launched-an-unprecedented-assault-on-the-environment-wheres-the-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-has-launched-an-unprecedented-assault-on-the-environment-wheres-the-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where\u2019s the pushback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>This story is published in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/\">DeSmog<\/a>, the climate investigations site<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/14\/trump-obama-climate-rule-takeaways\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/14\/trump-obama-climate-rule-takeaways\">assaults<\/a> the legal foundation of America\u2019s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is the \u201csilent\u201d acquiescence of billionaires, Democrats, climate activists and even reporters to the president\u2019s aggressive pro-fossil-fuel agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my 26 years of being focused on climate, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. Trump is gutting everything they ever stood for,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/marc-morano\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/marc-morano\/\">Marc Morano<\/a>, a long-time climate denier, said in January at the World Prosperity Forum, a five-day event in Zurich, Switzerland, billed as a rightwing alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/04\/trump-climate-change-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent This story is published in partnership with DeSmog, the climate investigations site As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America\u2019s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is &#8230; <a title=\"Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where\u2019s the pushback?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-has-launched-an-unprecedented-assault-on-the-environment-wheres-the-pushback\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where\u2019s the pushback?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}