The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money. The blockage, outlined in internal government memos, stems from an order forbidding health officials…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency can halt payments to New York City for a program designed to shelter migrants, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday. But the judge, John J. McConnell Jr. of U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, made clear that his order has no bearing on the legality of the Trump administration’s broader…
Environmental groups that fought bruising courtroom battles with the first Trump administration are steeling themselves for another round amid a barrage of executive orders, firings and funding cuts. In interviews with more than a half-dozen of the most prominent groups, executives said that some — but not all — legal challenges could take time to…
For years, the fossil fuel industry and its allies have tried to overturn one of the most important federal rulings in the history of climate policy: the one that requires the government to limit greenhouse gases. They lobbied. They sued. And so far they’ve failed. But in President Trump, they have a new ally in…
