The State Department has eliminated the office that oversees international climate talks. The Office of Global Change is being shuttered as part of the Trump II administration’s effort to end U.S. participation in international climate negotiations and planning efforts.

The familiar energy-efficiency program is set to be closed, along with the EPA’s climate change office.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it would stop keeping track of the cost of climate and weather disasters that cause at least $1 billion in damage. Insurers, government policy-makers, and scientists relay on this data. The NOAA said it would archive and make available the existing data, which covers 1980-2024.

With hurricane season just a few weeks away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has canceled its strategic plan, Wired reports. In a memo, agency leaders said the existing plan was scotched because it no longer aligned with administration goals, and a new plan would be unveiled later this summer. FEMA employees told Wired they couldn't recall a time when a strategic plan was canceled without a new one in place.

The Senate voted Thursday to block California's plan to stop the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The president is expected to sign the bill when it reaches his desk. Two other measures that undercut the state's ability to regulate tail-pipe emissions have been approved by Congress and are also on the way to the White House. California governor Gavin Newsom said the state would sue to keep the rules in place.

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted plans to remove limits on greenhouse gases emitted by power plants, according to documents reviewed by the NY Times. The erstwhile air quality watchdog argues in the draft plan that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution, or to climate change, because they are a small and declining share of global emissions.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his department would cancel $3.7 billion in grants funding 24 projects aimed at developing decarbonization or carbon sequestration technology. Wright's statement included the usual administration boilerplate that accompanies cuts like these: "The Trump administration is doing our due diligence to ensure we are utilizing taxpayer dollars to strengthen our national security, bolster affordable, reliable energy sources and advance projects that generate the highest possible return on investment." These program cancellations are part of a broader audit of 179 climate programs worth $15 billion.

The Trump administration announced it would end federal protections for millions of acres of Alaska wilderness, opening it up to oil drilling and mining. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said president Biden had exceeded his authority when his administration banned mining and drilling in the area last year. The site is known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and was created during the early 1900s to provide a petroleum reserve for the Navy.

The National Weather Service said it would hire about 100 new employees to "fill positions at field offices where there is the greatest operational need." Earlier this year the NWS let go almost 600 employees during cuts ordered by the Trump administration.

The Department of Justice has reversed decades old precedent and concluded that the president has the authority to abolish protected lands set aside as national monuments by previous presidents. The new legal opinion undoes an opinion written in 1938. That interpretation of the 1906 Antiquities Act had allowed for millions of acres of federal lands to be off limits to miners, oil driller, and other interests. According to the opinion, authored by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, the president can determine that previously declared monuments “either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections; and such an alteration can have the effect of eliminating entirely the reservation of the parcel of land previously associated with a national monument.”