Brian Lear on WNYC now our climate story of the week which we do every Tuesday on the show

and since the Republican National Convention kicked off in Milwaukee last night we'll take a moment to look at both

the climate and the energy platforms, which of course are related, of the Republican platform, as well as those set forth in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025,

which some say will be the real blueprint

for a second Trump presidency.

While former President Trump has recently

tried to distance himself from that 900 page policy proposal.

Media reports show that many authors of that conservative

wish list were former Trump administration officials,

including, notably for this segment, his former EPA Chief of Staff.

Joining us now from the Republican National Convention is Zach Coleman, reporter covering

climate and energy at Politico.

Zach, thanks for joining us.

Welcome to WNYC.

Thanks for having me.

And I see the convention open last night

with a focus on energy.

Can you give us a play by play of how it was talked about

You're gonna hear a lot about energy dominance I mean that is what everyone is talking to me about it's kind of this idea that we're going to unleash a bunch of oil, coal, and gas.

You know, a lot of the people that I talk to here in Milwaukee say they're not against clean energy but they think that the current

administration's policies have restrained oil and gas and you know that's

their opinion but you know the US has never pumped more oil and

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