Adviser Tells Behind-the-Scenes Story of Trump’s Approach to Environment

The untold story of Trump’s ultra-green golf courses

Donald Trump speaks at the groundbreaking of the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., on Jan. 14, 2005. Matthew Simmons/Getty Images

Environmentalist Ed Russo’s hate-turned-to-love relationship with Donald Trump started on a golf course in New Jersey in 2002.

Russo was the head of a local committee that had made it practically impossible for Trump’s water-guzzling, chemical-using, habitat-destroying golf course to take root in Bedminster, New Jersey.