Project 2025 would be truly disastrous for the environment

The conservative blueprint would undermine Biden’s climate policies and alter the future of U.S. fossil fuel production, climate action, and environmental justice. 

As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government.