What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a policy agenda for a potential far right wing administration in January 2025. Created by the Heritage Foundation, it is a playbook for an authoritarian administration the likes of which have never been seen in America before. It would open the door to corruption and make it even harder for the American people to have a say in our government and its policies. 

The plan is a blueprint to dismantle our democracy that would put the health and safety of our people, our families, and future generations in jeopardy. It would give corporate polluters the keys to our government, allowing them to rewrite our laws, bypass Congress and undermine the will of the people, and further poison our air and water as they profit. 

Simply put, Project 2025 would be game over for climate progress.

Project 2025 would aim to limit federal involvement in environmental policy through lessened regulatory power, rulemaking, and smaller agencies. It would push for the deregulation of many environmental policies implemented under the current administration, reversing the progress that has been made at protecting our health while prioritizing oil, gas and coal at the expense of our climate.

Highlights of the plan include:

• Eliminating or rolling back safeguards that protect Americans’ access to clean air, clean drinking water, and protected public lands.
• Dismantling the Inflation Reduction Act (President Biden’s 2022 Clean Energy Plan) that has already created more than 300,000 new jobs, and eliminating tax credits and rebates that are helping electrify homes and businesses across the country
• Handing our public lands over to oil and gas companies to drill whenever and wherever they want, including in some of our most precious and pristine public lands, while leaving us to deal with the pollution and toxic waste they leave behind.  
• Halting all government action to reach our climate goals, putting Americans and the U.S. economy at further risk of more extreme weather and a faster-warming planet.
• Privatizing the National Weather Service and preventing it from forecasting extreme weather events and providing research on the advancing climate crisis.
• A national abortion ban and further tearing down of reproductive freedoms, rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, and freedoms to make our own healthcare decisions.
• Purging the federal government of anyone except far-right party loyalists.
• And much more

The dangerous policies outlined in Project 2025 would threaten our democracy, increase pollution and energy costs, further exacerbate the climate crisis, and make life harder for communities already struggling.

What can you do about it

Talk to your friends and family! Knowledge is power – the more that people know about this authoritarian plot, the more we can do to stop it.

Each of us is the most effective messenger to the people we know. In a time of so much misinformation, hearing directly from trusted sources is especially important.

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Project 2025 Is a Blueprint for Canceling American Democracy