Project 2025 Means More Environmental Injustice. We’ll Fight Back.

We are prepared to defend the environment and communities no matter who holds political office.

Tour facilitator Catherine Flowers opens the visit with homeowner Charlie Mae who talks about living across from an open sewage lagoon in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama, on August 1, 2022. Under certain conditions, her yard fills with sewage water from her home's straight pipe system. (Lance Cheung / USDA) 
 
Catherine Flowers, the founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, talks about open-sewage issues in Hayneville, Alabama, alongside homeowner Charlie Mae during a tour of Lowndes County in 2022. (Lance Cheung / USDA)  

The Project 2025 policy playbook written by former government officials and Heritage Foundation staff would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. It would trade these basic freedoms to help polluters profit.

Though the scope of planning written down in Project 2025 is new, many of the ideas it presents are not. At Earthjustice, we’ve seen presidential administrations push similar agendas before — and through the courts we have pushed back.

What Project 2025 says about environmental justice:

  • Environmental justice is not the government’s problem: Project 2025 questions whether the government should address the ways that communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately exposed to dangerous pollution.
  • Get rid of staff who work on these issues: The plan calls for disbanding offices with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that focus on environmental justice.

How Earthjustice will fight:

Earthjustice is prepared to defend the environment and communities no matter who holds political office. Learn more about how Project 2025 is setting out to destroy the environment.