Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s Election, New Climate Champions Set to Enter Congress

By Wyatt Myskow, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

The 2024 election will likely result in a major setback for climate action, with President-elect Donald Trump retaking the White House and Republicans taking back control of the Senate. Climate advocates in Congress now must work to ward off the worst attempts to weaken the country’s bedrock environmental laws and gut recently passed climate actions from the Biden administration.