If enacted, the climate policies outlined in Project 2025 would cause billions of tons of extra carbon pollution and wipe out more than a million jobs
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** Project 2025 would destroy jobs, climate, and economy, analysis finds
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Thursday, August 15, 2024
Methane burns from a flaring unit. Carl Young, Wikimedia Commons ([link removed])
If enacted, the climate policies outlined in Project 2025—the extremist think tank Heritage Foundation's plan for a potential future conservative administration—would cause billions of tons of extra carbon pollution, wreck U.S. climate targets, and wipe out more than a million jobs, according to a new report ([link removed]) from nonpartisan research group Energy Innovation.
The analysis ([link removed]) found that the climate policies in Project 2025 would be so devastating that they would completely eliminate any chance the U.S. could meet its goal ([link removed]) of cutting emissions in half by 2030. The study also found that 1.7 million jobs would be lost in 2030 due to reduced clean energy development—jobs that would not be offset by fossil fuel jobs. On top of this, the climate policies in Project 2025 would decrease the U.S. GDP by $320 billion by slashing domestic renewables and reversing electric car manufacturing.
Contrarily, the analysis found that continued climate leadership creates significantly more jobs, increases GDP, improves public health, and generates more household energy savings.
“The U.S. faces a fork in the road starting in January of 2025 with two climate and energy policy pathways that are highly divergent,” said ([link removed]) Anand Gopal, executive director of policy research at Energy Innovation. “These future policy pathways result in stark differences for our health, our pocketbooks, the economy and climate.”
** Quick hits
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Report: Project 2025 promises billions of tons more carbon pollution
The Guardian ([link removed])
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High Country News ([link removed])
A plan to save Colorado River water could come with financial and environmental costs
KUNC ([link removed])
Arizona Tribe wants feds to replace electrical transmission line after a 21-hour power outage
Associated Press ([link removed])
In New Mexico, Water Authority breaks ground on $8 million outfall restoration project
Albuquerque Journal ([link removed])
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Idaho Statesman ([link removed])
Column: 'Be here now': Taking time to slow down and appreciate nature
Santa Fe New Mexican ([link removed])
** Quote of the day
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” I feel like a child in nature, partially because of how small it makes me feel but also due to how little I understand of it.”
—Matt Dahlseid, multimedia editor and outdoors writer, Santa Fe New Mexican ([link removed])
** Picture This
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@katmainpp ([link removed])
This little guy didn't get the memo that foxes are supposed to be sly not curious. Maybe wild animals don't conform to human impressions though 🦊
Red foxes range all over the continental US and north into Canada and Alaska. Do you see red foxes in your area?
NPS Photo/L. Law
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