How corporate broadcast networks covered Earth Month in 2025

Corporate broadcast networks devoted nearly 2.5 hours of airtime to Earth Day and Earth Month coverage in 2025 — though much of it failed to meet the moment. Overall, Earth Day coverage has declined over the past three years, reaching its peak in 2022. At a time when the Trump administration is waging a sustained assault on climate and environmental policy, the need to connect climate and environmental challenges to their political causes has never been more urgent.

Major networks largely overlooked how this assault by the administration is deepening the climate crisis and threatening public health. Key deregulatory actions by the administration went mostly unmentioned, even as they reshaped the environmental landscape in real time. Earth Month coverage must do more than raise awareness. It must hold power to account, and it must rapidly improve to meet that standard going forward.