Donald Trump continues his assault on climate change awareness and climate action while pushing more fossil fuel extraction and use. Well, in this case, it’s not a post on antisocial media that looks 50 years out of date or a mind-bogglingly stupid statement in front of world leaders. However, his administration is doing the work he wants to drag the United States backward and accelerate global heating and climate catastrophe.

In fact, we have two example of this regression today. First of all, “the U.S. Forest Service announced a revised oil and gas leasing rule that fast-tracks dirty energy projects in national forests,” the Sierra Club updates us. “In a press release, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the policy would ‘streamline’ the process for allowing oil and gas projects on landscapes managed by the Forest Service.”

Of course, this is case #176 or something of this kind of anti-cleantech, pro-pollution agenda. It’s just more of the same every day with this administration. “Since his first day back in office, Donald Trump has made it clear he wants to gift wrap our public lands to hand over to billionaires and corporate polluters,” Mike Scott, Sierra Club’s Oil and Gas Campaign Manager, noted. “Now he wants to fast-track oil and gas drilling projects on national forest lands. This is one more giveaway to the oil and gas industry and the latest example of Trump’s mismanagement of our country’s public lands and energy economy. It’s not ‘energy dominance,’ it’s sacrificing lands, waterways, and wildlife to boost corporate profits.”

And for all the people who threw their hands up and made all kinds of noise about solar power plants on federal land, where are they now when it comes to this much more destructive, harmful fossil fuel extraction? Funny how those “environmentalists” just disappeared.

In the second Luddite-fueled action from the Trump administration that we have news of today, they reportedly “ordered the removal of more interpretive signage referencing climate change and Native American history at popular national parks, including Glacier National Park and Grand Canyon National Park, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post.”

Sound familiar? That’s because this is not the first time the Trump administration has done this. “This follows last week’s news about changes to signage referencing slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. The moves are the latest actions by the Trump Administration to whitewash and sanitize history at National Park Service sites by removing or changing signage about slavery, climate change, Native Americans, transgender rights, and other issues. Over the spring and summer of 2025, the administration pursued a ‘review’ of signs and exhibits at national parks and national monuments that came in conflict with Trump’s executive order ‘restoring truth and sanity to American History’,” the Sierra Club summarizes.

“Earlier this month, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for refusing to release information related to the Administration’s efforts to erase history on public lands. Information received so far from the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management reveals the public clearly opposes these efforts.” Frankly, I think it’s despicable and disgusting that the administration is trying to wipe out awareness raising around our history of slavery. They are trying to hide our extremely racist and inhumane past. Unsurprising from an administration that is intent on committing more racist and inhumane atrocities every day, though.

“The Trump Administration continues to politicize our national parks by censoring facts to sell a sanitized version of history. Removing signage about slavery, climate change, and Native Americans doesn’t change history. Americans have shown they oppose these attempts to rewrite history, and the Sierra Club will continue to stand against the Trump Administration’s historical revisionism and ensure our public lands tell the full, honest story of our country,” Gerry James, deputy director of the Sierra Club’s Outdoors for All campaign, added.

Indeed. I hope all of these signs are being preserved and people are taking note of what’s been removed and where so that they can all be put back in place as soon as this backwards-thinking president and administration are out of office.