The period's coverage tracks climate stress arriving as discrete events while federal posture shifts beneath them. Tornadoes hit Enid and Mineral Wells, Georgia wildfires destroyed over 120 homes, ice surged through Black Lake homes, and Cave Creek faces Colorado River cuts after a record-low snowpack. Against that backdrop, the EPA under Lee Zeldin rescinded the 2009 Endangerment Finding and dissolved its research office, federal forest-thinning fell sharply in 2025, and Roberts-era shadow-docket memos surfaced. The carbon removal industry is repitching itself to Trump's energy agenda. The open question is what regulatory floor remains.