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Project 2025 would ‘essentially eviscerate EPA,’ former staff warn


Air quality gains in the US are in jeopardy.

A group called the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), created by hundreds of former EPA employees during an exodus of scientists from the agency under the Trump administration, counted up the benefits in a recent report. Vice President Kamala Harris says she’ll “tackle the climate crisis” and points to suits shefiled against polluters as California’s attorney general, even though she has simultaneously touted under Biden’s leadership. She’s expected to defend Biden era environmental policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest spending package on clean energy ever passed in the US, from which Donald Trump said he would rescind funds.

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