Project 2025's Goals for the Environmental Protection Agency

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a presidential transition project to set the country on a path that resists leftist values. The goal is to promote the nuclear family, all states' self-governance, improve our military, and protect our “God-given” constitutional rights. Section 3 is titled “The General Welfare” and starts off with the goal of managing our national debt. It immediately discusses medicare and medicaid reform, as the authors know it is a hot topic. The author, Daren Bakst, is a Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment at the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the implementation of conservative policy. They have funded this entire report.

The Project's Goals for the EPA:

Beginning on day one, an executive order should be issued by the president to review the organization and restructure it. This includes stopping and scrutinizing current grants, determining downsizing opportunities, and “ identifying relocation opportunities for Senior Executive Service (SES) positions (421).” Politicians also need to be sure that grants are not going to “politically affiliated organizations 420).” Funding for the Clean Water Act will be increased, however senior officials working on this program will once again be relocated. Bakst claims that unneeded climate change goals, like the EPA wanting to restore natural visibility by 2064, will be reduced or removed, and that we need to make it more difficult for the EPA to register pollutants, with an automatic withdrawal of any proposal not granted within a year. 

Project 2025 needs the EPA to be beholden to congress, with the use of enforcement when needed to force compliance. Once again, several more offices will be eliminated including the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance, and Eliminating the Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education. Some offices, like the last, will be reabsorbed into different departments. The Department of Homeland Security will take over the Office of Emergency Management and all tribal matters will now go through the American Indian Office.