To the Editor:

The Republican plan to fundamentally restructure the federal government know as Project 2025 would undermine the country’s extensive network of environmental and climate policies. It calls for eliminating federal restrictions on fossil fuel drilling on public lands, curtailing federal investments in renewable energy technologies and easing environmental permitting restrictions and procedures for new fossil fuel projects such as power plants.

Offices dedicated to clean energy research and energy efficiency guidelines for household appliances would be scrapped. Agencies that track methane emissions, manage environmental pollutants and chemicals and conduct climate change research would be curbed or eliminated. Laws that allow the EPA to curb emissions and air pollutants from vehicles, power plants and other industries, under the Clean Air Act would also be weakened or eliminated.

Republicans have nominated a Presidential Candidate who has offered the Fossil Fuel Industry anything they want for $1 Billion. Nice to know that someone considers the White House to be just another property in his portfolio that he is free to sell.

Although I chair the Newtown Sustainable Energy Commission, the views expressed here are my own and are not intended to reflect those of the Commission.

Kathy Quinn

Newtown