Akshay Thyagarajan

The Trump Administration Is Recklessly Axing Funding and Staff for America’s National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands The number of visitors to America’s public lands remains at an all-time high, while the Trump administration has made drastic cuts to popular agencies.

New CAP analysis finds that the Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget includes a nearly $4 billion cut to national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness and recreation areas, and more—a cut in funding by more than a third of 2024 levels.

This week's heat wave is a stark reminder that federal and state policymakers must take action to protect workers and to reduce the health and economic damages brought on by work exposure to extreme heat. www.americanprogress.org/article/extr...

With Americans Facing Utility Bill Increases This Year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Threatens To Drive Costs Even Higher Across the country, nearly 60 electric and gas utilities are hiking or trying to hike utility bills this year, totaling nearly $38.3 billion for 56.7 million electric customers and $3.5 billion for 26...

Like millions of Americans, I am getting ready to pay more on my electricity bills this year. The budget bill currently in the Senate is only going to make it worse! We need more clean and affordable energy, not less!

www.americanprogress.org/article/with...

Who exactly is winning under the Trump administration? Not people like Cody who just returned home from military leave to a price spike in his electric bill.

➡️ Share this video and let us know if you also got a notice that your electric bill is going up.

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Environmental Protections Will Give Polluters a Free Pass While Causing Millions of Asthma Attacks The Trump administration’s plan to weaken clean air protections could cause more than 10,000 asthma attacks per day while cutting lifesaving asthma prevention programs and as House Republicans seek to...

1. Americans' health is under threat. 🚨 Trump and House Republicans have set up the perfect storm for asthma that will cause over 100 million asthma attacks over the next 25 years. (1/6) www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

LNG Projects Are a Bad Deal for Germans and Americans Subsidizing fossil gas, especially long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas (LNG), undermines Germany’s energy independence, national security, public health, and climate goals, while also raisin...

Locking in long-term LNG contracts will result in Americans facing higher domestic energy prices and Germans facing reduced national security. The way forward is to invest in affordable, and cleaner technology ☀️🔋 that will lower costs and pollution. www.americanprogress.org/article/lng-...

One thing that cannot be said enough (honestly barely being said at all) about republican's big horrible bill is that it is fully eviscerating US federal climate policy.

The Inflation Reduction Act was finally the moment we took major federal action... and republicans are about to kill it. 1/11

House Republicans just passed their big billionaire bailout bill — a bill that threatens the loss of jobs, raises costs, and defunds programs dedicated to reducing pollution ON TOP of large cuts to healthcare access and food assistance. This is not “beautiful” — it’s so ugly and will hurt Americans

House Republicans Are Giving Up on U.S. Manufacturing Claims from congressional Republicans and the Trump administration that supporting domestic manufacturing is a priority are completely undercut by their efforts to strip incentives and kill successful...

Published a subtle column this AM…

House Republicans are Giving Up on U.S. Manufacturing!

www.americanprogress.org/article/hous... 1/3

As extreme heat conditions become worse, and with the federal administration unlikely to protect workers, state policymakers must fill the void. Policymakers don't have to start from scratch. They can draw on CAP recommendations here: www.americanprogress.org/article/stat...

The price of gas is already too damn high—Trump wants to make it even more expensive.

For decades, wildfires have been getting more severe—putting lives, homes, and lands at risk of destruction along the way. This escalating threat is a direct consequence of fossil-fueled climate change.

Learn more: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

@neeratanden.bsky.social is spot on: Rolling back IRA climate investments won’t just pollute our communities. It’ll raise energy costs for American families.

House Republicans should remember that gutting clean energy tax credits means higher bills for their constituents.

Ready for your gas prices to go up?

House Republicans are proposing to end almost all federal clean energy investments, which will drive up the cost of gas and line the pockets of Big Oil execs.

Electricity bills are rising, and The Trump administration's policies are making it worse!! We need to go all in on clean and affordable sources of energy. Not polluting and expensive fossil fuels. Read more in our new report: www.americanprogress.org/article/10-t...

10 Trump Administration Actions That Could Lead to Higher Electricity Prices Electricity prices are spiking, and the Trump administration’s actions are further increasing costs for working people while enriching billionaire oil and gas donors.

Electricity prices are spiking, and the Trump administration’s actions are further increasing costs for working people while enriching billionaire oil and gas donors. New from CAP's @lucerowx.bsky.social, @akshayt33.bsky.social, and @shannonbb-8.bsky.social:

10 Trump Administration Actions That Could Lead to Higher Electricity Prices Electricity prices are spiking, and the Trump administration’s actions are further increasing costs for working people while enriching billionaire oil and gas donors.

The Trump administration is attacking cost-saving programs & blocking access to affordable energy - ultimately increasing your electricity bills while making Big Oil executives richer. Read more from @amprog here: www.americanprogress.org/article/10-t...

The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Make Billionaires Richer May Make Americans Sicker The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are working to finance their plans to cut taxes for the ultrawealthy—and they are cutting environmental protection and clean energy programs, end...

‼️ BOTTOM LINE: More exports = higher bills AND worse health. This isn’t about energy independence, it’s about billionaires and oil execs cashing in while American families pay more and get sicker. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Center for Energy & Environmental Analysis breaks down the economic impacts in their latest report: “Drill More, Pay More.”
🔗 ceea.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CEEA-Drill-More-Pay-More-April-17-2025-Final.pdf

All this while oil & gas companies rake in profits. The Trump administration’s push to expand LNG exports even further means higher energy costs & more pollution. And it will be everyday Americans left to pay the price with their wallets and their health, not them. ⛽💰😷

💸💡 That shift is expected to drive up energy prices for U.S. industry by as much as 101%. And consumers will be paying for it through increased costs for goods and services, on top of increased household energy bills.

In 2025, for the first time ever, the U.S. will export more natural gas than all of the U.S. industrial sector—manufacturing, farming, energy, construction—uses combined. 📈📈

As we started selling natural gas overseas, prices at home stopped falling and began rising. Between 2019 and 2024, residential gas bills went up. Why? Because now the American market is competing with global demand. 🌎 www.eia.gov/energyexplai...

🧵: Since 2016, the U.S. has been exporting more and more liquefied natural gas (LNG). See what that’s meant for everyday Americans. 👇 eia.gov/outlooks/steo/realprices

This Earth Month, let’s talk about what’s at stake 🌎

Working-class Americans need clean air and water, lower energy bills, and protection from extreme weather. But the Trump administration is canceling the very projects that would make it possible. Hear more from @jasia.bsky.social:

The Trump administration and Musk-led DOGE are cutting the very resources and experts we need as extreme weather continues to worsen.

We must demand action or keep paying the price. @lucerowx.bsky.social explains:

Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Cut Clean Energy Investments Would Cause Higher Energy Bills and Job Losses Across States The clean energy supply chain spurred by U.S. investment has created jobs and helped to lower electricity costs; repealing these investments midstream would increase electricity prices for households ...

Since the passage of the IRA, states have benefited from millions in clean energy & manufacturing investment + thousands of new jobs. But Congressional Republicans are putting that all at risk.

New article out from me and @shannonbb-8.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

On day 1, Trump delivered what he promised to the oil execs for $1 billion:

💰pushing LNG exports that will raise electricity bills $10/mo (per DOE)

💰opening up the refuge in Alaska

💰Fighting against EVs, which will raise gasoline prices 15% (per Rhodium)

Americans pay for Trump's promises.

Opinion | China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy (Gift Article) President Trump seems poised to roll back the very incentives that are reviving American manufacturing.

Granholm nails it.

• You can kiss our manufacturing renaissance goodbye if they rollback the laws that made it possible.

• China would love to see us leave the clean energy future to them.

• Our growing power grid needs new wind, solar, batteries, and more.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

Trump just overturned the Biden 30x30 America the Beautiful executive decree. What does that mean for the ocean? #Beyond30x30