Climate Change
Gen Z is more likely to consider climate change a legislative priority than past generations, with climate change becoming an increasingly bipartisan issue for young voters. Young Americans overwhelmingly want to see their government take action to protect the environment and mitigate the potential impacts of climate change. Instead of taking this action, Project 2025 proposes rollbacks of environmental protections and aims to undo Biden’s pro-climate actions.
According to Project 2025, an incoming conservative administration would:
- Rescind all climate policies from its foreign aid programs
- Cease collaborating with and funding progressive foundations, corporations, international institutions, and NGOs that advocate on behalf of climate action
- Repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
- End the EPA’s focus on climate change and green subsidies
- Eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps by revoking funding and eliminating all positions and personnel hired under the program
- Direct the Department of Energy to “end the Biden Administration’s unprovoked war on fossil fuels, restore America’s energy independence, oppose eyesore windmills built at taxpayer expense, and respect the right of Americans to buy and drive cars of their own choosing” (page 286)
- Stop all federal grants to environmental advocacy groups
- Approve the 2020 Willow EIS, the largest pending oil and gas projection in the United States in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and expand approval from three to five drilling pads
- Withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement
- Reduced proposed fuel economy levels
- Rollback BIden’s executive orders on climate and energy, and reinstated the Trump-era Energy Dominance Agenda, which remove a series of environmental protections, including:
- SO 3348: Concerning the Federal Coal Moratorium
- SO 3349: American Energy Independence
- SO 3350: America-First Offshore Energy Strategy
SO 3351: Strengthening the Department of the Interior’s Energy Portfolio - SO 3352: National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska;
- SO 3354: Supporting and Improving the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program and Federal Solid Mineral Leasing Program;
- SO 3355: Streamlining National Environmental Policy Reviews and Implementation of Executive Order 13807, “Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review and Permitting Process for Infrastructure Projects”
- SO 3358: Executive Committee for Expedited Permitting
- SO 3360: Rescinding Authorities Inconsistent with Secretary’s Order 3349, “American Energy Independence;”
- SO 3380: Public Notice of the Costs Associated with Developing Department of the Interior Publications and Similar Documents;
- SO 3385: Enforcement Priorities; and
- SO 3389: Coordinating and Clarifying National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Reviews
If you’re interested in reading more, you can read the full 920-page Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership report.