Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’

<p>Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it</p><p>Ahead of next month’s major <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/unitednations">United Nations</a> climate talks in Brazil, Gina McCarthy, the former Environmental Protection Agency head, said US cities and states were keeping the climate fight alive despite an all-out assault from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>.</p><p>“We will not allow our country to become numb or debilitated by those who are standing in the way of progress,” she said on a press call early on Thursday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/resist-trump-attacks-climate-action">Continue reading...</a>