by Willy Blackmore

In the summer of 2020, when Donald Trump was president for the first time and the United States was in the early and incredibly deadly months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump floated an idea for bringing down cases.

“Think of this, if we didn’t do testing, instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing, we would have half the cases,” Trump said during a White House press conference. “If we did another, you cut that in half, we would have, yet again, half of that. But the headlines are always testing.”

Five years later, the second Trump Administration is putting a similar approach into practice for climate change: it wants to stop monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 2010, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has collected data on carbon, m

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