Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies.
The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.
Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.
That’s worked until now because we’ve been in the warning stage for the past 30 years. We are actively moving into the consequences stage. They can put out bullshit studies and cry “fake news” but that’s not a winning strategy when the yearly heatwaves and longer, harder hurricane seasons are smacking their idiot constituents in the face.
I would suggest that, to your average conservative, “consequence” is (and will remain) simply a big word that they can not spell.