The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement of civil rights is notoriously slow, with only a few cases ever making it to the finish line — and only then after decades. But even this small protection may be extinguished if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House.
Federal civil rights protections against policies with discriminatory impacts, invoked over the years by environmental justice activists in California, are a target in Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a future Republican administration. Though Trump has tried to distance himself from the 900-page manifesto, it was written largely by aides and confidants from his first term in office.
