Donald Trump says he isn’t worried about climate change. Before he was a presidential candidate, he said global warming was “a hoax” invented by China to kneecap the American economy. “The climate has always been changing,” he shrugged more recently. If he's elected president, Trump says, one of his 'Day One' priorities will be increasing oil and gas production — or, as he puts it: “Drill, baby, drill!” With more fossil fuels, he promises, “we will be rich again and happy again.
But last year, the conservative Heritage Foundation assembled a team of former Trump aides to compile a policy agenda called “Project 2025.” The approximately 900-page document includes a detailed strategy for revoking or limiting California’s emissions standards. It suggests that instead of revoking the waiver, the EPA could limit California’s standards to smog-producing pollutants like ozone, not greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.