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FEATURING ANTONIA JUHASZ - As Southeastern U.S. communities reel from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and as Florida braces for the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton, the impacts of climate change are more apparent than ever. 

In this context, the climate-related goals of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 are more significant than ever. Project 2025 aims to cut the size and scope of federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Weather Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, claiming they have infiltrated the federal government and are “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” It calls for the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change so the U.S. wouldn’t need to track, report, or reduce emissions. 

An August 2024 study determined that if all of the document’s climate-related recommendations were implemented, the U.S. would spew an additional 2.7 billion tons of climate-heating emissions into the atmosphere by 2030. 

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