I put in a lot of work on my post yesterday about Project 2025, quoting more than 300 points where Heritage and its allies want to cut our government, particularly including anything to do with Global Warming. So here is that, distilled for your edification.
It’s OK, really. We aren’t forcing you to save money, your health, and the planet. We’ll just roll electrons at you as we zoom past the gas station.
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Abolishing the existing Office of Domestic Climate Policy.
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The President should eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), which is cochaired by the OSTP, OMB, and CEA, and by executive order should end the use of SCC analysis.
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The next Administration should eliminate the Climate Hub Office and withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prosperity of the United States.
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The next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change74 and the Paris Agreement.
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Elected officials must clamp down on the Fed’s incorporation of environmental, social, and governance factors into its mandate.
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The aid industry claims that climate change causes poverty, which is false…
USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support the responsible management of oil and gas reserves as the quickest way to end wrenching poverty
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The DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED); Office of State and Community Energy Programs; ARPA-E; Office of Grid Deployment (OGD); and DOE Loan Program should be eliminated or reformed.
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Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) programs.
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Increase energy security and supply through fossil fuels.
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End the focus on climate change and green subsidies.
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Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances.
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Eliminate EERE [The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy].
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End grid planning and focus instead on reliability [code for more fossil carbon burning].
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GDO [TheGrid Deployment Office] should emphasize grid reliability, not renewables expansion.
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Eliminate GDO
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End DOE/GDO’s role in grid planning for the benefit of renewable developers.
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Eliminate OCED [Office of Clean Energy Demonstration].
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Eliminate ARPA-E.
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Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps
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EIA forecasts should be based on current laws and regulations and should not be used to promote favored policies.
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Some think that EIA should be privatized.
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Support the responsible development of Alaska’s energy assets
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Recognize the interdependence of electric generation and natural gas.
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Limit the impact of subsidized renewables on price formation. Subsidized renewable resources are undermining electric reliability.
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Congress should repeal subsidies for generation resources.
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Require renewable generators to provide intra-day backup by dispatchable on-demand generation so that bids by intermittent resources into RTOs equate fairly with far more valuable on-demand dispatchable resources; [because storage doesn’t count to them]
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Eliminate capacity markets where intermittent resources participate and instead establish “reliability” markets where dispatchable on-demand resources participate. [because storage doesn’t count to them]
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End undue discrimination that allows subsidized resources to distort price formation in RTOs. [Subsidized—like fossil fuels?]
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Socializing [grid expansion] costs is a form of subsidy for generators. Prevent socializing costs for customers who do not benefit [from reducing prices across the entire grid].
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FERC should recommit itself to the NGA’s purpose of providing the American people with access to affordable and reliable natural gas. Limit its NGA decision-making on natural gas pipeline certificates to the question of whether there is a need for the natural gas. [There isn’t.]
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FERC should not use environmental issues like climate change as a reason to stop LNG projects. [Never mind that they are guaranteed to lose money, now that we have passed Peak Gas in the US and Europe.]
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EPA’s structure and mission should be greatly circumscribed to reflect the principles of cooperative federalism and limited government.
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Reset science advisory boards to expand opportunities for a diversity of scientific [and pseudo-scientific] viewpoints free of potential [Soshulist] conflicts of interest.
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Revise guidance documents that control regulations such as the social cost of carbon.
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Obey Congress’s direction in CAA § 32116 to “conduct continuing evaluations” of the employment and plant-closure effects of air regulations.
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Remove any regulations or requirements that confer on third parties any authorities that have been provided to EPA, such as the oil and gas supplemental, which created a Super-Emitter Response Program that allows third parties to act as EPA enforcers.
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Regional haze rules should be revised to prevent subsequent “planning periods” from being abused to compel the shutdown of disfavored facilities.
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Reverse the program’s 2022 expansion beyond power plants.
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Remove the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for any source category that is not currently being regulated.
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Restore the position that California’s waiver applies only toCalifornia-specific issues like ground-level ozone, not global climate issues.
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Ensure that other states can adopt California’s standards only for traditional/criteria pollutants, not greenhouse gases.
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Stop the use of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to increase standards on airplanes.
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Reconsider the Cleaner Trucks Initiative to balance the goal of driving down emissions without creating significant costs or complex burdens on the industry.
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Restore the position that EPA cannot regulate a new pollutant from an already regulated source category without making predicate findings for that new pollutant.
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Call for the public to identify areas where EPA has inconsistently assessed risk, failed to use the best science, or participated in research misconduct.
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Eliminate the use of unauthorized regulatory inputs like the social cost of carbon, black box and proprietary models, and unrealistic climate scenarios, including those based on Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP)
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Suspend and review the activities of EPA advisory bodies, many of which have not been authorized by Congress or lack independence, balance, and geographic and viewpoint diversity. [Code for not enough Red State input]
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Retract delegations for key science and risk-assessment decisions from Assistant Administrators, regional offices, and career officials.
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A top priority should be the immediate and consistent rejection of all EPAORD and science activities that have not been authorized by Congress.
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Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountable efforts to use scientific determinations to drive regulatory, enforcement, and legal decisions, should be eliminated.
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Key EPA advisory committees were purged of balanced perspectives, geographic diversity, important regulatory and private-sector experience, and state, local, and tribal expertise.
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EPA regulations lack relevant scientific perspectives, increasing the risks of economic fallout and a failure of cooperative federalism. EPA also has repeatedly disregarded legal requirements regarding the role of these advisory committees and the scope of scientific advice on key regulations.
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Instead of allowing these efforts to be misused for scaremongering risk communications and enforcement activities, EPA should embrace so-called citizen science and deputize the public to subject the agency’s science to greater scrutiny. [But see point 132, above.]
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[Second addendum] Shift responsibility for evaluating misconduct away from its Office of Scientific Integrity, which has been overseen by environmental activists, and toward an independent body.
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Work (including with Congress) to provide incentives similar to those under the False Claims Act for the public to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct, thereby saving taxpayers from having to bear the costs involved in expending unnecessary resources.
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Reject precautionary default models and uncertainty factors.
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EPA’s heavy reliance on default assumptions like its low-dose, linear non-threshold model bake orders of magnitude of risk into key regulatory inputs and drive flawed and opaque decisions.
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Prohibit peer review activities for unaccountable third parties that lack independence or application of these same principles to nongovernmental peer review bodies.
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Add teeth to long-standing executive orders, memoranda, recommenda-tions, and other policies to require that EPA regulations are based on transparent, reproducible science as well as that the data and publications resulting from taxpayer-funded activities are made immediately available to the public.
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Reject funds for programs that have not been authorized by Congress (like IRIS) as well as peer review activities that have not been authorized by Congress.
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Revisit and repeal or reform outdated environmental statutes. A high priority should be the repeal or reform of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which has been misused for political purposes.
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Use the Congressional Review Act for Congress to disapprove of EPA regulations and other quasi-regulatory actions and prohibit “substantially similar” actions in the future.
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Repeal Inflation Reduction Act programs providing grants for environmental science activities.
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EPA grantmaking—discretionary and otherwise—is driven by ideology instead of need. As a result, grant funds produce little to no meaningful improvements in the environment and public health and instead fund questionably relevant projects at elite, private academic institutions that invariably produce radical environmental research.
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A more conservative EPA that aligns with the policies outlined in this chapter will lead to a better environmental future without unintended consequences.
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Improved transparency will serve as an important check to ensure that the agency’s mission is not distorted or co-opted for political gain.
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Repeal climate change initiatives and spending in the department’s budget request.
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President Joe Biden’s DOI, as is well documented, abandoned all pretense of complying with federal law regarding federally owned oil and gas resources.
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Immediately reinstate the following Trump DOI secretarial orders: lSO 3348: Concerning the Federal Coal Moratorium; lSO 3349: American Energy Independence; lSO 3350: America-First Offshore Energy Strategy; lSO 3351: Strengthening the Department of the Interior’s Energy Portfolio; lSO 3352: National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska; and many more
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Reinstate President Trump’s plan for opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska to leasing and development.
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Remove ESG [Environmental, Social, Governance] considerations from ERISA.
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Transforming the [Transportation] department to address the varied needs of all Americans more effectively remains a central challenge.
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DOT has pivoted from a successful focus on the voluntary sharing of data to improve safety outcomes to adoption of a more compulsory and antagonistic approach. This needs to be reversed.
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Break Up NOAA, one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.
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Treasury Secretary Yellin says: “We will have to address the structural problems that have plagued our economy for decades: the decline in labor force participation, income and racial inequality, and serious underinvestment in crucial public goods like childcare, education, and physical infrastructure. And then there are rising challenges, like climate change, which, left unchecked, will undermine every aspect of our economy from supply chains to the financial system.” So the next Administration must act decisively to curtail activities that fall outside Treasury’s mandate and primary mission.
That’s about a quarter of the “reforms” in the entire plan. Only on abortion and contraception is the plan equally vociferous.
These Gish Gallops make it impossible to fact check all of it.
