Chris Hayes explains how Trump’s Project 2025 is making climate change worse

Chris Hayes said on Tuesday that the climate platform proposed as part of the Republican Party’s Project 2025 aims to “actively make things worse.”

With record-high temperatures across the country practically “melting our faces” and the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, climate change cannot be ignored, argued the host of MSNBC’s “All In.”

Hayes went on to say that even Republicans who have “lied about climate change” for decades can no longer argue it away. Yet former President Donald Trump actively avoided the topic at the June 27 CNN debate, referring to an earlier point about his relationship with police.

Meanwhile, the party’s “Project 2025” program promises to end the current climate initiative under the administration of President Joe Biden.

.@chrislhayes on Trump’s Project 2025: “Not only do they have no plan to mitigate the effects of climate change, they want to actively make it worse by repealing all climate regulations.” pic.twitter.com/o7sRA1zfbP

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) July 10, 2024

“The Republican party’s proposed platform says nothing about promoting green energy,” Hayes said of the current Project 2025 documents. “They just want to ‘drill, baby, drill.'”

The project aims to “counter the ugly windmills being built at taxpayer expense” and support the repeal of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Anti-Inflation Act, which it was admitted actually “provide hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy developers.”

“Not only do they have no plan to mitigate the effects of climate change, they want to actively make it worse by repealing all climate regulations.”

Hayes reported on Project 2025 last week, calling the 900-page document a guide on how “a second Trump administration can weaponize the federal government to pursue a, frankly, frighteningly authoritarian vision.” He thanked Taraji B. Henson for bringing Project 2025 to attention as host of the BET Awards, and said more and more people are becoming aware of what is essentially a “wish list of a series of fringe, far-right policy proposals” from the Heritage Foundation that is “an outright dictatorial fantasy of control over the American people.”

“It means that this small circle of far-right zealots, these really scary nutcases, are going to exercise total control over every aspect of your life: what you watch and what you read and what you email and what your health care looks like,” Hayes said.

Watch the entire “All In” segment in the video above.