How environmental safeguards are being dismantled: An interactive timeline

Since January 2025, the federal administration has introduced a dizzying number of policies, rules, and revisions that have eroded our bedrock climate and environmental laws and are fundamentally undermining how conservation works in our public lands.  Amid the continuous executive orders, government layoffs, and budget negotiations, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. That’s why our team has sifted compiled the biggest policy decisions impacting the California desert in a new interactive timeline. 

Scroll through the timeline to see concise analysis and understand how the natural world is under threat.

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