Politico Folds Its Climate News Website After Trump EPA Axed Nearly $500K Annual Subscription

Politico is shutting down its E&E News brand just over a year after the Trump administration ended a taxpayer-funded subscription worth nearly half a million dollars per year.

The outlet announced Monday that E&E News will cease operating as a standalone brand and will instead be folded into Politico’s broader energy and environmental coverage.

The move follows a decision by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in February 2025 to cancel the agency’s subscription to Politico and E&E News, saving taxpayers $458,919 annually.

“Best $458,919 we ever saved on behalf of taxpayers,” an EPA spokesperson told The Daily Caller.

“The government shouldn’t subsidize poor journalism, and it’s a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat.”

New: Politico is folding E&E, the energy trade publication it bought in 2020.

The company says it is reorganizing its energy coverage under the Politico brand and launching a series of new state and global energy newsletters. pic.twitter.com/ZPxSY4LeGr

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) June 8, 2026

At the time, Zeldin announced on social media that the EPA would not renew its membership with Politico and Politico E&E, citing the nearly half-million-dollar annual cost.

Politico says the closure is part of a broader restructuring of its energy and environmental coverage.

According to an announcement from CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Global Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger, the company plans to launch two new energy-focused newsletters later this year.

“Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching a more focused, high-impact portfolio of daily news and intelligence products,” the executives told Semafor.

“As part of this shift, E&E News will no longer operate as a separate brand.”

“Its journalism and expertise will be fully integrated into POLITICO’s energy and environment portfolio of stories, briefs, analysis and newsletters.”

What’s melting – climate hoax propaganda outlets. POLITICO is halting Energy & Environment News publications like Climatewire, Greenwire and other hoax wires.

“Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching… pic.twitter.com/5Bo971xPcc

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 8, 2026

Politico declined further comment beyond its public announcement.

E&E News marketed itself as a subscription-based publication covering energy and environmental policy through a series of daily newsletters and reports.

The outlet has faced criticism from Trump administration officials in the past.

In 2025, Interior Department Press Secretary Charlotte Taylor described E&E News as a “desperate outlet,” arguing that it relied heavily on government leaks and had limited readership.

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