Environmentalism Is Out of Ideas
Petitions. Lawsuits. Press releases. The movement that once built the EPA is managing its own decline. To make the environment matter again by 2028, we need risk, speed, and imagination.
The email arrived one afternoon as I sat at my home-office desk, the news cycle already humming with fresh dismantlings. The second Trump administration had entered a kind of bureaucratic frenzy: gutting methane-emission rules for oil and gas producers, shrinking national monuments, weakening the Endangered Species Act, rolling back the Obama-era vehicl…


