Friday, August 16, 2024

Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study

Project 2025 calls for a widespread evisceration of environmental protections, allowing for a glut of new oil and gas drilling, the repeal of the IRA and even the elimination of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service so they can be replaced by private companies. The conservative Heritage Foundation, which leads Project 2025, has said a new Trump administration should "eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere"… 

It would also, according to the new modeling, cause several thousand extra premature deaths by the end of the decade due to worsened air pollution, and cause a bump in Americans' household costs compared to a path of more ambitious climate action. The Project 2025 team did not respond to a request for comment…

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