Coral Davenport

Washington, D.C.

Energy and Environment Correspondent at The New York Times

I cover energy and environment policy for the New York Times. [email protected]. Also reachable on Signal and WhatsApp.

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Articles

Biden and World Leaders Focus on Innovation for ‘Clean Energy Future’ - The New York Times

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Lisa Friedman |Coral Davenport |Glenn Thrush |Katie Rogers |Pranshu Verma |Maggie Haberman | +8 more

The second day of the White House virtual summit to tackle the environmental crisis focused on how the United States and other nations could meet their targets and ramp up renewable energy development.
Senator Visits Wrongly Deported Man, and Trump's 'Kill List' for Regulations

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |Coral Davenport
Inside Trump’s plan to halt hundreds of regulations

4 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Coral Davenport

At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. At the Mine Safety and Health Administration, powerful lobbying groups have asked the administration to eliminate a rule to protect miners from inhaling the dust of crystalline silica, a mineral that is used in concrete, smartphones and cat litter but that can be lethal in the lungs.
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Coral Davenport

White House officials did not respond to emails requesting comment from Mr. Musk on the matter. Mr. Vought is seeking public input. He posted a call for ideas on the Federal Register, the government portal where the public can comment on proposed regulatory changes, adding a deregulatory "suggestion box."In recent days, Mr. Trump's executive orders have signaled an even more aggressive approach than many expected.
DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff

1 month ago | mahoningmatters.com | Coral Davenport |NYT Washington

Members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency gained access over the weekend to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move overruled objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information, including by making it more vulnerable to terrorist cyberattacks, these people said.
DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Coral Davenport

4 hours agoI'm tired of being mocked and hated because I'm a conservative woman | OpinionProgressives claim to value women, but they routinely demonize conservative women who refuse to conform to the molds that the left tries to force us into. As a conservative woman living in Texas, I often feel like I'm living a dual reality. I'm a mom and a writer, but that's not all.
DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Coral Davenport

The Interior Department is one of a handful of large agencies, including the Pentagon and the Agriculture Department, that house payroll hubs through which flow the salaries of thousands of federal workers at dozens of other agencies. The Interior Department hub processes payrolls for the Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security departments, as well as the Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other federal agencies.
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She's a Target.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Coral Davenport

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage. Fresh out of law school in 2022, Rachel Rothschild wrote a memo laying out the legal justification for a new strategy to fight climate change: States could force oil and gas companies to pay for the damage caused by extreme floods and wildfires that are made worse by the use of their products. Ms. Rothschild's work was foundational.
Firings expand at Interior Department with purge of probationary workers

2 months ago | sanjuandailystar.com | Coral Davenport |Chris Cameron

By Coral Davenport and Chris CameronThe Trump administration fired about 1,300 additional employees at the Interior Department over the holiday weekend, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding to the widespread purge of thousands of federal workers with probationary status that began last week.
Many groups promised federal aid still have no funds and no answers

Feb 12, 2025 | mahoningmatters.com | David Fahrenthold |Sharon LaFraniere |Coral Davenport |NYT Washington

WASHINGTON -- Last year, the Ritenour School District in Missouri won a $9.5 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace its worn-out diesel school buses with clean-running electric models. By mid-January, the buses were almost there, waiting at a dealer’s lot just an hour away. All the district had to do was withdraw its grant money and make the last payment. Then President Donald Trump took office, and the EPA refused to let the district take the money.