What Does Project 2025 Mean for the Environment and Climate Change?
We Have Excerpted the Key Provisions
Project 2025 has received a good deal of media attention as a conservative vision for the future of the federal government. The document is 900 pages long, so not surprisingly, few people have read it all. A good portion of those 900 pages focus on energy, environment, and climate change, much of it designed to severely limit the roles of USEPA, Department of Interior, and even the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Center for Law, Energy & Environment (CLEE) at UC Berkeley has excerpted the key provisions related to energy, environment, and climate change, here. I have added a few comments to the 41 pages of excerpts, which you should feel free to ignore. It is, however, well worth looking through the excerpts themselves to get a sense of the fairly breathtaking nature and extent of the proposal.
In the coming weeks, CLEE plans to provide some legal analysis and commentary for specific aspects of the proposal and related efforts as well as a webinar discussion.
If you have suggestions for sub-topics, please let me know.
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Ken is the director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, & Environment. He spent eight years as a Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jerry Brow…
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Dear Mr. Ken Alex,
Could you (and CLEE) please clarify whether or not President Trump has supported and endorsed Project 2025?
Jim, the first sentence of the CLEE states the plan is “not the platform of any current candidate”. That doesn’t mean a whole lot, as a wish list created by the prominent conservative think tanks has to potential to impact policy, especially if a Republican becomes President.