On April 21, 2026, Chief Judge Denise Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction (a pre-trial remedy meant to preserve the status quo) against a series of actions by the Department of the Interior and other federal agencies that had collectively stalled renewable energy permitting nationwide during the second Trump Administration.

The sweeping restructuring of the United States Forest Service represents one of the most dramatic reorganizations of a federal land management agency in the nation's history, placing 193 million acres of public land at risk.

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post entitled Trump spends his first 100 days attacking the climate detailing many of the immediate...