Green New Deal Network dissolves as climate activists shift focus to local data center fights
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Kate Yoder
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The article examines the decline of the Green New Deal Network coalition, which officially ended on December 31, 2025, as a casualty of the shifting political landscape following Donald Trump's 2024 reelection. It explores how the momentum for large-scale climate action has stalled at the federal level, and how climate activists are pivoting to local battles — specifically targeting data centers, which are polluting and power-hungry facilities. The piece reflects on the broader political realignment and the movement's search for new strategies in a hostile political environment.
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· 3 pulledThe coalition wasn't intended to last forever, but its demise was sped up by the political mood that got President Donald Trump reelected in 2024.
On December 31, 2025, the Green New Deal Network, a coalition of climate, labor, and social justice organizations, officially died.
Amid the many political casualties of 2025 — mass federal layoffs, shuttered agencies, and clean energy spending cuts — the passing of one of the last decade's defining political projects went almost entirely unnoticed.
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