Throughout his 2024 campaign for the president, Donald Trump repeatedly and repeated
“I have nothing to do with project 2025,” Trump said during a debate with former vice president Kamala Harris last September. He said he had not read the document, nor did he intend to do so.
However, less than six months in its second stay in the White House, the President and its administration have started or completed 42% of the 2025 project agenda, according to a monitoring project that identified more than 300 specific elements of action in the 922 -page document. The 2025 project tracker is led by two volunteers who “believe in the importance of transparent and detailed analysis,” according to their website.
Of all the elements of action, almost a quarter are related to the environment through agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Forest Service and the departments of the Interior, Commerce and Energy. In addition, it seems that the environment is a high priority for the Trump administration, which has started or completed around 70% of the environmental agenda of the 2025 project, or approximately two thirds, according to an analysis of the Times of the tracked elements.
That includes elements of action of the project 2025 as the regulations of air quality and the water to roll; cancel funds for clean energy projects and environmental justice subsidies; Available to scientists and researchers in related fields; and withdraw from the Climate Agreement of Paris, an agreement between almost 200 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming.
When asked about this overlap, the Administration continued to minimize any connection between the president and the 2025 project.
“No one worried about project 2025 when they chose President Trump in November 2024, and now they don't care,” said White House spokesman Taylor Rogers, in an email. “President Trump is implementing the first United States agenda in which he campaigned to release Dei Dei waste for scientific avant -garde research, reverse radical climatic regulations and restore the United States energy domain while ensuring that Americans have clean air and clean water.”
The 2025 project refers to climate change as an “alarm industry” used to support a radical ideology and agenda.
“The erroneous characterization of the state of our environment in general and real damage reasonably attributable to climate change is specifically a favored tool that the left uses to scare the American public to accept its ineffective regulations and driven by freedom, reduced private property rights and exorbitant costs,” he says in a chapter on the EPA.
The author of that chapter, Mandy Gunasekara, served as head of the EPA Cabinet during the first Trump administration. In the document, it recommends that the president perform a series of actions to reform the EPA, including the reduction of the agency, eliminate his Office of Environmental Justice and Civil Rights, and institute a pause and review of subsidies, everything Trump has done.
That same chapter also recommends that President Socve's ability to establish strict vehicle issuance standards, which Trump promised to do shortly after assuming the position; The Senate voted this week to revoke California's rights to promulgate policies on the subject.
Gunasekara did not respond to a request for comments.
Matthew Sanders, an interim deputy director of the Environmental Law Clinic in Stanford, said these and other mandatory movements of the 2025 project could have long -range ramifications. He pointed out that another 11 states had chosen to follow California's issuance rules.
“What California affects what the rest of the nation does,” Sanders said. “In that sense … decisions on how to carry out the mandates of the Clean Air Law are the falsification of technology for much of the nation, and isolate California and eliminate its ability to do so will have deep consequences.”
EPA is not the only agency affected by the changes in environmental policy reflected in the 2025 project.
The Trump administration has also ordered the department of Energy to expand the lease of oil and gas in Alaska, eliminates considerations for greenhouse gas emissions upstream and downstream, and accelerates the approval of liquefied natural gas projects, all of which were recommendations described in the document.
The Department of the Interior, which supervises the National Parks and Public Lands of the United States, has seen a decline of at least a dozen of the executive orders of President Biden that prioritized to address climate change, as well as the termination of a policy of the Biden era to protect 30% of the land and water of the United States by 2030, also known as the 30×30 plan.
In April, Trump issued an executive order Opening 112.5 million acres from national forests to industrial logging, as described on page 308 of project 2025. The President said that the measure, which will touch the 18 national forests of California, intends to increase domestic wood supplies, reduce the risk of forest fires and create jobs.
Sanders said that actions in public lands are particularly consistent, not only for the extraction of resources but also for protected species and their habitats. The president has already taken mandatory steps of the 2025 project to reduce protections for marine life and birds, and has asked that the reduction of protections to reduce the law of endangered species.
He also expressed concern about Trump's January 20 proposal to review or rescind the regulations of the National Environmental Policy Law (NEPA) that require federal agencies to consider the environmental impacts of their actions, a recommended step on page 60 of Project 2025.
While the president described Nepa and other rules such as “onerous and ideologically motivated regulations” that limit US jobs and the economic growth of the obstacle, Sanders said that such a framework is an excessive simplification that can make the environment an at an atcot for other administrative objectives.
“When we make these decisions in a reflexive, careful and deliberate way, we can actually have work and economic development and Environmental protection, “he said.” I do not believe that these things are inherently opposed, but the administration, I think, gets a milage of suggesting that they are. ”
In fact, the Department of Commerce, which houses the national national and atmospheric administration, the National Meteorological Service and other climate -related entities, has also seen changes that follow the Play Book of the 2025 project. The document describes the agency as “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to the future American prosperity.”
In recent months, the president has made movements to “break” NOAA, a directive that is also found on page 674 of the 2025 project document, including the collection of hundreds of employees, closing several offices and proposing significant cuts to his research arm.
The administration has taken in a similar way the steps recommended by the 2025 project to remove the responsibilities of relief in federal government disasters and the states; loosen energy efficiency standards for appliances; and terminate USAID policies that address climate change and help countries transition to fossil fuels, among others.
These are some of the almost 70 environmental action items identified in the 2025 project tracker, of which 47 are already completed or in progress less than 150 days in the second mandate of President Trump.
The monitoring of the progress of the administration is a somewhat subjective process, partly because many of the directives have passed through executive orders or require multiple steps to complete. In addition, many objectives described in the 2025 project are indirect or implicit and, therefore, are not included in the tracker, according to Adrienne Cobb, one of its creators.
Cobb told The Times that he read the entire document and extracted only “explicit calls to action, or recommendations in which the authors clearly affirm that something should be done.”
“My goal was for the tracker to reflect the intentions of the authors using their own words whenever possible,” he said. “By focusing on direct language and processable elements, I tried to create a precise and responsible list of the source material.”
Although the Trump administration continues to deny any connection with the 2025 project, the creators of the massive volume were always clear their presidential intentions.
“This volume, The Conservative Promise, is the opening save of the 2025 presidential transition project,” wrote the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, on his striker. “Its 30 chapters present hundreds of clear and concrete policies recommendations for the White House offices, the cabinet departments, the congress and the agencies, the commissions and the joints.”
