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The Far Right Has a ‘Battle Plan’ to Undo Climate Progress Should Trump Win in 2024

Inside Climate News · By Kristoffer Tigue · last updated
The proposal, called Project 2025, would gut environmental spending, stymie clean energy development and fundamentally shift how federal agencies regulate U.S. industries.

By Kristoffer Tigue

Far-right conservative groups are promoting a sprawling “battle plan” to obstruct and undo the federal government’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis, with hopes of quickly enacting a series of sweeping changes if Donald Trump, or any other Republican, gets elected as president next year.

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