Consider Trump’s recent halting of the National Climate Assessment, one of the most comprehensive examinations of how climate change affects American communities. Under normal circumstances, a nonprofit like the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), which taps into the expertise of more than 650 former EPA staff, would be expected to step in.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin traveled to California to address an ongoing sewage crisis that's been affecting residents for years, but critics say the Earth Day visit was hypocritical.