Despite Trump-era reversals, 2025 still saw environmental wins. Here are 7 worth noting.

As 2025 draws to a close, environmental advocates across the U.S. find themselves weighing a year marked by both setbacks and successes.

Despite major environmental reversals taken by the Donald Trump administration, including loosening fossil fuel rules and weakening endangered-species safeguards, conservationists, lawmakers, and researchers still notched key wins at local and state levels.

Here are some environmental triumphs across the country amid a year of political turbulence.