Donald Trump’s Project 2025 is an extreme MAGA policy blueprint that aims to reshape the U.S. federal government significantly. While it touches on nearly every facet of life in America, it poses substantial threats to environmental and climate change action.
This is a list of resources that call attention to this terrifying vision of a future America, where climate policies are rolled back, dependency on fossil fuels is increased, federal agencies that manage our public lands and water are weakened, and where the just transition to a renewable energy economy is blocked.
This list will update regularly up until election day on November 5, 2024. Visit vote.gov to register to vote today.
Last updated August 7, 2024
Big Picture
- What is Project 2025? video by Center for American Progress
- Project 2025: Trump’s Second Term Not-So-Secret Plan podcast by Molly Jong-Fast and Thomas Zimmer for iHeartRadio
- Democracy Forward Releases Report Detailing Devastating Impacts of the Far-Right Project 2025’s Day-One Policies, press release by Democracy Forward
- Meet the ex-Trump officials who helped draft Project 2025 by Robin Bravender for E&E News by Politico
- Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it by Maxine Joselow and Scott Dance for Washington Post
Climate Change
- What Project 2025 Would Mean for America’s Climate Policies by Zoya Teirstein for Grist
- What Project 2025 would mean for the fight against climate change by Zack Budryk and Rachel Frazin for The Hill
- Project 2025 Would Be Disastrous for Our Nation and Our Climate by Rachel Cleetus for Union of Concerned Scientists blog
- John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be “absolutely unimaginable and destructive” by Matthew Rozsa for Salon
- Inside Trump’s Plan to Bulldoze American Climate Policy by Dana Drugmand for Sierra
- MAGA Republicans Have a 920-Page Plan to Make Climate Change Worse. Here’s What It Says. by Jeva Lange for Heatmap
- What Project 2025 Would Mean for Climate Change by Jason P. Dinh for Atmos
Fossil Fuels
- Trump’s Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis by Marcus Baram for Rolling Stone
- Trump blueprint would revive Interior ‘energy dominance’ push by Heather Richards for E&E News by Politico
Environmental Protection Agency
- Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025’s Plan for the EPA by Amy Westervelt for Drilled
- Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up to 1 Million Federal Workers by American Federation of Government Employees
- Project 2025 Would Make It Easier for Big Corporations to Dump Dangerous Toxins That Poison Americans by Jill Rosenthal, Marquisha Johns, and Jasia Smith for Center for American Progress
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Project 2025 Targets NOAA and National Weather Service by Hayley Smith for Los Angeles Times
- Yes, Project 2025 recommends dismantling NOAA by Erin Jones for Verify This
- Trump allies target NOAA climate research by Scott Waldman for E&E News by Politico
Ocean Conservation
- How Trump’s Project 2025 would reshape America’s oceans by Andrew Thaler on Southern Fried Science
- We Already Know What Another Trump Presidency Would Mean for the Ocean by Andrew Thaler for Southern Fried Science
NOAA Weather Service
- The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports. by Zoe Schlanger for The Atlantic
- Would Trump privatize weather forecasting? What to know. by Scott Dance for The Washington Post
- NOAA, Project 2025 & the Future of Forecasting by Off the Radar podcast (with Dr. Neil Jacobs, former NOAA Administrator)
- The Plan to Privatize Weather Forecasts by Wes Siler for Outside Magazine
Department of Interior
- Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands by Chris D’Angelo for Huffington Post
Antiquities Act
- Project 2025 calls for the repeal of the Antiquities Act, but Cox says that’s a step too far by Kyle Dunphey for Utah News Dispatch
- Trump BLM chief: Let’s do away with the Antiquities Act by Jennifer Yachnin for E&E News by Politico
Public Lands
- The Insidious Plan to Destroy Our National Monuments by Wes Siler for Outside Magazine
- What Project 2025 Means for Public Lands and Waters by Kaden McArthur for Back Country Hunters
- Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West by Michelle Nijhuis and Erin X. Wong for High Country News
- Project 2025 is coming for our public lands by David Lien for Colorado Newsline
- Project 2025 Would Devastate America’s Public Lands by Kate Groetzinger for Center for Western Priorities
Wildlife
Migratory Birds
- Trump Is Once Again Back On His Bird Bulls**t by Chris D’Angelo for Huffington post