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President Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, slashed Obama-era emissions regulations, stocked his administration with former fossil fuel lobbyists, and categorically dismissed the notion that climate change is an existential threat.

But none of that prevented the president from declaring in a White House address Monday that he had “set the new global standard for environmental protections.”

Trump, eschewing talk of addressing the climate crisis, focused on how he wants “the cleanest air” and “crystal clean water,” as well as his decision to remove the U.

Tonight, President Trump officially kicks off his 2020 re-election campaign with a rally in Orlando. It’s sure to be a raucous event, with not a word – or not a serious word, anyway – about the biggest challenge of our time: climate change.

Few places in America have more at stake in the climate crisis than Florida, where billions of dollars worth of real estate are perched on the edge of quickly rising seas. Orlando is high ground, more than 80 feet above sea level. It’s in no danger of drowning from rising seas anytime soon.

Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement was only the beginning. According to a new report from the New York Times, the Trump administration is poised to enter a dangerous, politically motivated new front of its war on climate science. “It reminds me of the Soviet Union,” Philip Duffey, an expert who served on the National Academy of Sciences, told the paper.

In the coming months, the White House is expected to officially vanquish what’s left of Obama-era regulations to curb emissions from tailpipes and power plants. Though...