Thanks so much for doing the work of reading the document and sharing this information. This stuff is really important to know. A Harris/Walz administration will need to be pressured on environmental topics from day one, but with a Trump/Vance administration we will lose tools we need to exert pressure.
Granted that the alternative is definitely worse because of Project 2025. I would just add that since the Clinton years, when Big Green got "a seat at the table," not enough pressure has been put on Democratic administrations on environmental issues. Clinton pushed through the disastrous Northwest Forest Plan and the salvage rider. Obama pushed US fossil fuel production to new highs. Biden opened up vast areas of public land to extractive industries. Of special disappointment has been Interior Secretary Haaland, who didn't re-list wolves with the ESA and has done nothing about Oak Flat. There's much more to mention than these examples, none of which got enough push-back because enviros falsely believed they had friends in the White House. They didn't. What they had, and what we will get with a Harris, is an administration more susceptible to pressure, so that pressure must be applied. During the W administration we saw more environmental activism than during the Clinton years, which let up during Obama. Unfortunately, it didn't ramp back up enough during Trump in part because of media and partisan obsession with the Russiagate conspiracy theory that drove most other issues to the margins. So we still have lots and lots of work to do if Harris gets in; it's just that hopefully they will be more receptive, rather than dismantling the administrative state as Project 2025 aims to do.
I have read bits and pieces about Project 2025. Thanks for the heads up. Given its authors and the organization behind it, the Heritage Foundation, I am not at all surprised that it would want to weaken any environmental regulations that keep our air, water and soil clean. It likely would like to dismantle the EPA.
I say our, even though I live in Toronto, because Canada and the U.S. shares a border. I also remember the problem with acid rain in the 1970s and how it was actually solved via cooperation with the signing of the U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement (1991). It was under a George H.W. Bush Administration, a Republican president; and Brian Mulroney, a Conservative prime minister.
I mention this, because such an agreement would not be possible today under a Republican Administration. It has gone into the Twilight Zone.
Thanks so much for doing the work of reading the document and sharing this information. This stuff is really important to know. A Harris/Walz administration will need to be pressured on environmental topics from day one, but with a Trump/Vance administration we will lose tools we need to exert pressure.
Yes. For both Harris and Waltz they have a mixed record on the environment. But consider the alternative...
Granted that the alternative is definitely worse because of Project 2025. I would just add that since the Clinton years, when Big Green got "a seat at the table," not enough pressure has been put on Democratic administrations on environmental issues. Clinton pushed through the disastrous Northwest Forest Plan and the salvage rider. Obama pushed US fossil fuel production to new highs. Biden opened up vast areas of public land to extractive industries. Of special disappointment has been Interior Secretary Haaland, who didn't re-list wolves with the ESA and has done nothing about Oak Flat. There's much more to mention than these examples, none of which got enough push-back because enviros falsely believed they had friends in the White House. They didn't. What they had, and what we will get with a Harris, is an administration more susceptible to pressure, so that pressure must be applied. During the W administration we saw more environmental activism than during the Clinton years, which let up during Obama. Unfortunately, it didn't ramp back up enough during Trump in part because of media and partisan obsession with the Russiagate conspiracy theory that drove most other issues to the margins. So we still have lots and lots of work to do if Harris gets in; it's just that hopefully they will be more receptive, rather than dismantling the administrative state as Project 2025 aims to do.
We all rely on stereotypes to inform us. To be open minded is a super skill.
I have read bits and pieces about Project 2025. Thanks for the heads up. Given its authors and the organization behind it, the Heritage Foundation, I am not at all surprised that it would want to weaken any environmental regulations that keep our air, water and soil clean. It likely would like to dismantle the EPA.
I say our, even though I live in Toronto, because Canada and the U.S. shares a border. I also remember the problem with acid rain in the 1970s and how it was actually solved via cooperation with the signing of the U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement (1991). It was under a George H.W. Bush Administration, a Republican president; and Brian Mulroney, a Conservative prime minister.
I mention this, because such an agreement would not be possible today under a Republican Administration. It has gone into the Twilight Zone.