One of the things that you see when you read Project 2025 is not just the racist dog whistles, but some ideas that were exactly lifted from some of the most extreme white supremacists ever.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Obey Congress’s direction in CAA § 321'° to “conduct continuing evaluations” of the employment and plant-closure effects of air regulations.
Ensure that all provisions of CAA § 307(d)” are observed. Congress placed special constraints on air rules, and that intent should be respected.
To the extent that the Inflation Reduction Act (RA)"* remains in place, ensure to the maximum extent possible that grants and funding are provided to state regulatory entities and not to nonprofits.
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.
Policy-Specific Actions
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
EPA adopted by regulation a goal of restoring natural visibility by 2064. The statute does not require this, and EPA should consider whether a longer timeline is less disruptive or more realistic. Regional haze rules should be revised to prevent subsequent “planning periods” from being abused to compel the shutdown of disfavored facilities.
Under the Good Neighbor Program/Interstate pollutant transport program, review Biden-era regulations to ensure that they do not “overcontrol” upwind states in violation of the statute as construed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Reverse the program’s 2022 expansion beyond power plants.
Putting guardrails on downwind states is an abuse of the CAA § 126(b)”” petition process. EPA must ensure, in keeping with statutory text, that petitions identify a reasonably discrete “group” of upwind sources alleged to violate the good neighbor provision.
Ensure that the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) considers all of the statutorily charged factors (for example, social and economic
effects resulting from NAAQS attainment and maintenance strategies).
Ensure that the requirements EPA puts on a state that has achieved attainment status from nonattainment status are limited to those that