The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office have come with an uncharacteristic rush of policymaking and breaking, near-daily executive orders, and an attempt to reshape and shrink the federal workforce.
His energy and environment agenda is focused on speeding U.S. fossil fuel production, cutting red tape and eliminating climate change regulations.
Here it is, by the numbers:
142: The number of executive orders Trump signed in the first 100 days of his second term. (He signed 30 in the first 100 days of his first term.)
Federal agencies
99: The number of federal agencies Elon Musk said would be “more than enough.” (There are actually 441 agencies.)
65: The percentage EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wants to cut his agency’s spending in 2025.
8: EPA’s ranking in a DOGE “agency efficiency leaderboard” of savings. The Interior Department ranks 11th and the Energy Department ranks 20th.
$50,000: The maximum amount that EPA can spend on most projects and programs without requiring sign-off from DOGE.
0: The number of Congress-approved new earmarks for water infrastructure, climate resilience and other projects under a Trump-backed fiscal 2025 continuing resolution that averted a shutdown in March.
9,699: The number of grant cancellations DOGE lists on its website.
8,454: The number of contract cancellations DOGE lists on its website.
400+: The number of federal environmental grants to nonprofits, universities, cities and state agencies that EPA has tried to terminate because of their connection to environmental justice.
443: The number of federal buildings the Trump administration designated for “disposal” in March before the online list mysteriously disappeared.
643: The number of federal lease terminations DOGE has listed on its website.
16: The number of NOAA Cooperative Institutes, partnering with 80 universities and research institutes across the country, that would lose funding under an Office of Management and Budget proposal seeking to eliminate the agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
10: The number of NOAA laboratories that would lose funding under that OMB budget proposal.
Federal workers
50,000: The number of positions the Trump administration expects will be moved into a new category of policy-influencing staffers who will be easier to fire.
5: The number of accomplishments the Trump administration directed federal workers to detail in response to the question, “What did you do last week?”
545: The number of EPA employees who took the initial offer for deferred resignation.
280: The approximate number of EPA employees potentially facing layoffs because their jobs are tied to programs promoting environmental justice or diversity, equity and inclusion.
2,700: The estimated number of Department of the Interior employees who took the first offer for deferred resignation.
759: The number of provisional National Park Service employees fired in a Valentine’s Day mass layoff, one of the first major efforts of the Trump administration to drastically shrink the federal workforce.
3,500+: The number of Department of Energy employees who took the initial offer for deferred resignation.
55: The approximate number of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission employees who plan to take the Trump administration’s deferred retirement offer.
60: The percentage of employees at DOE’s Loan Programs Office, a lifeline to America’s nuclear power industry, poised to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer.
27,000: The cumulative years of experience of NOAA employees who left the agency under Voluntary Early Retirement and Voluntary Separation Incentive programs in April, according to NOAA Deputy Administrator for Operations Nancy Hann.
Regulations
10: The number of regulations Trump directed agencies to repeal for each new rule put into place.
4: The number of energy and environment Congressional Review Act resolutions that lawmakers have approved to undo Biden administration rules. Congress has approved measures against EPA’s methane fee rules, a mandate affecting offshore drilling and energy efficiency standards.
31: The number of deregulatory actions Zeldin touted in March as he announced the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.”
15: The number of minutes Trump says it takes for his hair to get wet with existing showerheads. Trump proposed rules that would allow more water to be released from the appliances.
1,106: The number of migratory birds listed under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which was restricted by Trump’s Interior Department to prohibit only intentional bird killing.
125,283: The number of comments received by the Fish and Wildlife Service in the first week following its proposal to redefine the word “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.
9: The number of chemical food dyes targeted by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for phase-out.
600+: The number of Clean Water Act permits that the Army Corps of Engineers initially said it would allow through an expedited review process to satisfy Trump’s “energy emergency.”
66.5: The fertility rate per 1,000 women in South Dakota, the highest among the states. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signed an order Jan. 29 prioritizing federal funds for states with high marriage and birth rates.
0.0000625: The percentage by which ocean plastic pollution would decrease if the U.S. banned plastic straws, per the Domestic Policy Council’s report mandated by Trump’s executive order on paper straws.
Natural resources
6: The number of national monuments the Interior Department is considering reducing in size.
250: The number of historical figures Trump ordered to be immortalized in a statue garden to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
500: The number of Army troops Trump deployed in and around Big Bend National Park to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
110,000: The number of acres Interior Secretary Doug Burgum transferred to the U.S. Army’s “administrative control” from the Bureau of Land Management as part of efforts to build border barriers and increase patrols.
400,000: The square miles of previously protected waters in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument that Trump ordered be opened to commercial fishing. That’s more than 80 percent of the protected site.
Law
200 and counting: The number of lawsuits filed against the Trump administration for firing federal workers, freezing federal grants, canceling refugee programs, removing data from public health websites, barring trangender people from the military and attempting to restructure government.
3+: The number of state climate laws targeted in an executive order where Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to “stop the enforcement of State laws” on climate change. The order named California’s carbon cap-and-trade rule as well as New York and Vermont laws, and numerous state lawsuits targeting the oil industry for climate damages.
30: The number of lawsuits identifying Burgum as a defendant filed in his first month in office.
9: The number of law firms that struck agreements with Trump in an effort to avoid executive orders that targeted them. The nine promised to devote free legal work to projects Trump supports, and he has suggested some of the firms could help his efforts to boost coal production.
19: The number of Biden administration Interior solicitor legal opinions suspended for review and possible reversal.
Energy
28: The number of days within which the Interior Department ordered environmental reviews of fossil fuel and mining projects eligible for “emergency” processing to be completed.
10: The number of approximate days under the new “emergency” processing that the public would have to comment on extraction projects expected to cause environmental harm.
625 million: The acres of U.S. oceans Trump has opened to oil and gas development, reversing an offshore oil ban inked by outgoing President Joe Biden.
3,224: The approximate number of oil and gas leases in seven Western states that the administration will no longer pursue environmental impact statements for.
58: The number of days that Kathleen Sgamma, the head of an oil and gas industry trade group, was Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the BLM before abruptly withdrawing on April 10.
68: The number of coal-fired power plants given extra time to meet stricter hazardous air pollution rules.
8: The number of other industrial sectors granted eligibility for similar compliance extensions.
16: The number of sites on DOE land being eyed by the Trump administration to build data centers to meet booming electricity demand.
$3.95 billion: The amount awarded by Congress to four “clean” hydrogen hubs now being considered for termination by DOE officials.
4 cents: Increase in the average national gasoline price since Inauguration Day.
52 cents: Decrease in the average national gasoline price since this time last year.
54: Increase since inauguration in the number of oil and gas drilling rigs operating in the U.S.
29: Decrease since last year in the number of oil and gas drilling rigs operating in the U.S.
49: The number of natural gas orders issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a fraction of the 296 issued in the first 100 days of the Biden administration.
14: The percentage increase of U.S exports of liquefied natural gas, from February 2024 to February 2025, according to a report issued April 23 by the Department of Energy. U.S LNG exports are down 1.4 percent from January 2025.
Economy
56: The percent drop in average prices for eggs since February, according to USDA.
3.2: The percentage decline since Nov. 4, 2024, of the S&P 500, an index fund of the largest U.S. listed companies.
11.3: The percentage decline since Nov. 4, 2024, of the iShares Global Clean Energy ETF, the world’s largest exchange traded fund of clean energy stocks.
2: The forecast percentage increase in national electricity prices in 2025 compared to 2024, according to the Energy Information Administration.
18 months: The time Trump said it would take to halve electricity prices.
73 percent: The percentage of Americans who said they were concerned utility bills would rise this year, according to a March Ipsos survey.
Climate change
2: The number of times Trump has announced he’s leaving the Paris climate agreement, a global pact among nearly 200 nations to tackle global warming. The U.S. is the only country to ever leave the deal.
150+: The number of climate and clean energy contracts and grants axed from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
$1.2 billion: The value of terminated USAID climate programs.
60: The number of days Bondi was given by Trump to deliver a report detailing any state laws that address climate change or environmental justice or that she believes otherwise hamper energy production. (Sixty days after April 8 is June 7.)
3: The number of agreements the Trump administration ditched that aim to help high-emitting countries end their reliance on coal-fired power.
Robin Bravender, Lesley Clark, Heather Richards, Jennifer Yachnin, Sean Reilly, Ellie Borst, Andy Picon, Christa Marshall, Michael Doyle, Daniel Cusick, Tom Frank, Mike Lee, Scott Streater, Sara Schonhardt, Miranda Willson, Carlos Anchondo, Jason Plautz, Anne C. Mulkern, Francisco “A.J.” Camacho, Corbin Hiar, Chelsea Harvey, Ian Stevenson, Mike Soraghan, Marc Heller and Manuel Quiñones contributed to this report.
