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Within the Department of Energy, offices dedicated to clean energy research and implementation would be eliminated, and energy efficiency guidelines and requirements for household appliances would be scrapped. The environmental oversight capacities of the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency would be curbed significantly or eliminated altogether, preventing these agencies from tracking methane emissions, managing environmental pollutants and chemicals, or conducting climate change research.<\/p>\n
In addition to these major overhauls, Project 2025 advocates for getting rid of smaller and lesser-known federal programs and statutes that safeguard public health and environmental justice. It recommends eliminating the Endangerment Finding\u2014the legal mechanism that requires the EPA to curb emissions and air pollutants from vehicles and power plants, among other industries, under the Clean Air Act. It also recommends axing government efforts to assess the social cost of carbon, or the damage each additional ton of carbon emitted causes. And it seeks to prevent agencies from assessing the \u201cco-benefits,\u201d or the knock-on positive health impacts, of their policies, such as better air quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you think about who is going to be hit the hardest by pollution\u2014whether it\u2019s conventional air, water, and soil pollution or climate change\u2014it is very often low-income communities and communities of color,\u201d said Rachel Cleetus, policy director of the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. \u201cThe undercutting of these kinds of protections is going to have a disproportionate impact on these very same communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\nChemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as \u201cCancer Alley\u201d in Louisiana.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Photographer: Giles Clarke\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nOther proposals would wreak havoc on the nation\u2019s ability to prepare for and respond to climate disasters. Project 2025 suggests eliminating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service housed therein and replacing those organizations with private companies. The blueprint appears to leave the National Hurricane Center intact, saying the data it collects should be \u201cpresented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.\u201d But the National Hurricane Center pulls much of its data from the National Weather Service, as do most other private weather service companies, and eliminating public weather data could devastate Americans\u2019 access to accurate weather forecasts<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s preposterous,\u201d said Rob Moore, a policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council\u2019s Action Fund. \u201cThere\u2019s no problem that\u2019s getting addressed with this solution, this is a solution in search of some problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within the Department of Energy, offices dedicated to clean energy research and implementation would be eliminated, and energy efficiency guidelines and requirements for household appliances would be scrapped. The environmental oversight capacities of the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency would be curbed significantly or eliminated altogether, preventing these agencies from tracking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":12066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[1207,895,894,893,1097,2366],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-2024-election","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-desk","tag-environment","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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