Seven environmental wins across the US in 2025 despite Trump-era reversals

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.