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Project 2025 and Election 2024

• https://thebulletin.org/2024/08/project-2025-the-right-wing-conspiracy-to-torpedo-global-climate-action/

Michael E. Mann

Project 2025.... would put an end to US climate action at this critical moment.

The energy and environmental provisions of Project 2025 were effectively written by polluters, with front groups such as the Koch-funded “Competitive Enterprise Institute” and “Heartland Institute” playing a key role in drafting the report. They are seeking to dismantle climate policy in the US through a combination of executive actions, such as the elimination of federal agencies with oversight over energy and environmental policy, and legislative actions.

Project 2025 would gut the EPA, which is responsible for enforcement of environmental policies, and it would reverse the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It would eliminate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which monitors changes in our atmosphere, oceans and climate. Project 2025 would eliminate clean energy loan programs at the Department of Energy and remove climate change—one of the greatest national security threats we face—from the National Security Council agenda. It supports more oil drilling in the environmentally sensitive Arctic and asserts that the government has an “obligation to develop vast oil and gas and coal resources.”

Perhaps most problematic, Project 2025 would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the single most substantial piece of climate legislation in US history. Passed with a tie-breaking vote from current Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and 50 Senate democrats but not a single Republican, the IRA provides $370 billion of investment in clean energy infrastructure. Independent experts have estimated that it will greatly accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, leading to an estimated 40 percent reduction in US carbon emissions by 2030.

GreenPolicy360: The message here of Dr. Mann, the presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and Media at The University of Pennsylvania should be at the forefront of Us presidential and congressional election. The choice being made is one that will directly and lastingly effect all in the nation and quality of life across the planet. The challenge is a generational challenge. The science is a guide. The choice of direction taken is in human hands.

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