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Here's a (not at all exhaustive) list of concrete actions the last Republican administration took: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-enviro

Here's a (not at all exhaustive) list of concrete actions the last Republican administration took: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir.... Major things you may recall are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, placing the EPA and Interior Department under the control of officials who denied the reality of climate change, and repealing the Clean Power Plan. In their own words, here are the changes they plan to make to the EPA and Department of the Interior if they take control again: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-13.pdf https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA..., https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-16.pdf https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA.... These documents were not written to drum up votes, they are very detailed policy plans that most voters will never see.

giantg2 2y ago
You do realize Project 2025 is a political subgroup of about 80 people/orgs, right? This is not official policy documents of the entire political party. Even Trump's policies are not fully aligned to the party, but you can look at those under the Agenda 47 project. This would be like me saying Brand New Congress or Our Revolution are official policies of the Democrat party. There may be overlap, but they're political subgroups. Yes, I see 100 environmental rules rolled back. Many of which make little difference in people's lives as I said before. Most of those rules have state level rules that provide similar protections anyways. I don't see the Paris Climate Agreement as a big deal. It's a voluntary pact that we had no chance at meeting anyways. It's mostly just symbolic and both sides make a big deal about it for riling people up. I'd they really wanted to make a big deal with it, the countries would have pooled funding and worked together on a research org that could have created new technologies free to license. Many of the rules probably would have been better off left on the books, but in effect not much changed. I get that your view might differ. I'm sure you there are (non-environmental) rules that I could say are a big deal that you would argue are not.
- burkaman 2y ago
  There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016. This platform is as you say written and endorsed by more than 80 organizations that represent the full breadth of the Republican coalition. It is also written by the former Secretary of HUD, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, several members of the presidential transition team, CFO of the Commerce Department, Chief of Staff of the EPA, Secretary of Defense, FERC Commissioner, several senior presidential advisors, director of the BLM, director of the Office of Civil Rights, FEC Commissioner, director of the OMB, director of budget policy, and many more senior officials from the previous administration. These authors represent all aspects of the last Republican administration, and combined with the 80+ organizations they represent the entirety of the party.
  - giantg2 2y ago
    "There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016." The 2020 meeting decided not to adopt a new one. They are using the one from 2016. This is the official platform. "and combined with the 80+ organizations they represent the entirety of the party." Please stop saying untrue things. Please see the official platform. Any yes, previous officials participate in writing policy documents for various political organizations... for both sides.
    - BadHumans 2y ago
      The 2016 Republican Platform advocates for increasing mineral and oil production domestically and scaling back the EPA on several fronts because the environment gets better every year without additional regulations. I don't agree.
      - giantg2 2y ago
        That's good. I'm not saying people have to agree with anything. It sounds like you actually looked at the pertinent document and not just misrepresenting things.

giantg2 2y ago

You do realize Project 2025 is a political subgroup of about 80 people/orgs, right? This is not official policy documents of the entire political party. Even Trump's policies are not fully aligned to the party, but you can look at those under the Agenda 47 project. This would be like me saying Brand New Congress or Our Revolution are official policies of the Democrat party. There may be overlap, but they're political subgroups. Yes, I see 100 environmental rules rolled back. Many of which make little difference in people's lives as I said before. Most of those rules have state level rules that provide similar protections anyways. I don't see the Paris Climate Agreement as a big deal. It's a voluntary pact that we had no chance at meeting anyways. It's mostly just symbolic and both sides make a big deal about it for riling people up. I'd they really wanted to make a big deal with it, the countries would have pooled funding and worked together on a research org that could have created new technologies free to license. Many of the rules probably would have been better off left on the books, but in effect not much changed. I get that your view might differ. I'm sure you there are (non-environmental) rules that I could say are a big deal that you would argue are not.

burkaman 2y ago
There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016. This platform is as you say written and endorsed by more than 80 organizations that represent the full breadth of the Republican coalition. It is also written by the former Secretary of HUD, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, several members of the presidential transition team, CFO of the Commerce Department, Chief of Staff of the EPA, Secretary of Defense, FERC Commissioner, several senior presidential advisors, director of the BLM, director of the Office of Civil Rights, FEC Commissioner, director of the OMB, director of budget policy, and many more senior officials from the previous administration. These authors represent all aspects of the last Republican administration, and combined with the 80+ organizations they represent the entirety of the party.
- giantg2 2y ago
  "There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016." The 2020 meeting decided not to adopt a new one. They are using the one from 2016. This is the official platform. "and combined with the 80+ organizations they represent the entirety of the party." Please stop saying untrue things. Please see the official platform. Any yes, previous officials participate in writing policy documents for various political organizations... for both sides.
  - BadHumans 2y ago
    The 2016 Republican Platform advocates for increasing mineral and oil production domestically and scaling back the EPA on several fronts because the environment gets better every year without additional regulations. I don't agree.
    - giantg2 2y ago
      That's good. I'm not saying people have to agree with anything. It sounds like you actually looked at the pertinent document and not just misrepresenting things.