Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year despite Trump rollbacks
As 2025 draws to a close, environmental advocates across the US find themselves weighing a year marked by both setbacks and successes.
Despite major environmental reversals taken by the Donald Trump administration including loosening fossil fuel rules and weakening endangered-species safeguards, conservationists, lawmakers and researchers still notched key wins at local and state levels.
Here are some environmental triumphs across the US amid a year of political turbulence:
California turned to space technology this year to curb methane pollution, launching a new program that uses satellite-mounted sensors to spot major leaks in near real time.
