Project 2025 training video hits climate 'references' Leaked training videos from the Project 2025 team, obtained by ProPublica, show former Trump administration officials giving advice on how to “eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” Robin Bravender writes. If Trump wins in November, two of his former officials offer advice on “how to identify the left’s progressive language, scrutinize career staff compositions for dangerous language, and how to combat the manipulative efforts, ensuring clarity of definition and conservative intention.” This is in line with reports from the first Trump administration that government officials removed climate references from documents. Trump has also made the campaign promise to reverse President Joe Biden’s climate policies. 'Twisters' and turbines: Fact or fiction? Summer movie “Twisters” highlights some worries about how climate change could affect critical infrastructure like wind turbines, but the Department of Energy and wind power-generating states have taken precautions to protect wind farms and the communities near them, Clare Fieseler writes. “Maybe a tornado knocks down a handful of wind towers, but the wind farm can still operate the next day,” said Christopher Nowotarski, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. “But if [it] takes out a power plant, then you are going to lose a lot more power generation.” Tornadoes pose a much higher risk to the resiliency of fossil fuel-reliant power grids, but rising temperatures and a growing wind industry create more opportunities for weather-related accidents. Harris' history of environmental advocacy Harris has a long track record of pushing for environmental policies that address social and economic imbalances — a cause that could excite support from progressive activists but is also bringing her attacks from Republicans, write Thomas Frank, Zack Colman, Annie Snider and Alex Guillén. The vice president’s efforts to advance environmental justice date back to her time as the San Francisco district attorney in the early 2000s and include policies she has supported as California’s attorney general, a U.S. senator and a member of the Biden administration. It has some grass-roots advocates expressing the kind of enthusiasm for Harris that Biden has struggled to maintain, despite his historically expansive climate policies. “The environmental justice community will be solidly behind Kamala,” said Beverly Wright, founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. But GOP lawmakers have spent years criticizing Harris for the same policies, at times claiming — misleadingly — that she supported racial preferences.
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