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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 from nonpartisan research group Energy Innovation.
The analysis 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 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 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.”
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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.”
