Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 16 - Department of the Interior

• Roll back Biden's orders on climate action and environmental protection
• Reinstate Trump-era Energy Dominance Agenda
• Resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in all producing states
• Conduct more offshore oil and gas lease sales
• Develop a new five-year plan for offshore drilling
• Comply with laws to establish oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Restart the federal coal leasing program
• Abandon withdrawals of lands from leasing in environmentally sensitive areas
• Rescind Biden's rules on waste prevention, Endangered Species Act, and Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• Reinstate Trump's NEPA reforms
• Move Bureau of Land Management headquarters back to the West
• Change law enforcement structure in BLM
• Promote more aggressive management of wild horse populations
• Delist grizzly bears and gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act
• Cede jurisdiction over sage grouse to western states
• End reintroduction of species outside their historic ranges
• Abolish the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Reduce the number of coal reclamation inspectors
• Implement policies to expand oil, gas, and mineral extraction in Alaska
• Approve the Ambler Road Project in Alaska
• Reduce federal oversight of wildlife management on federal lands in Alaska
• Challenge state ownership of navigable waters in Alaska
• Reinstate Trump's exemption of the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule
• Review and potentially reduce the size of national monuments
• Seek repeal of the Antiquities Act
• Prioritize timber harvesting over conservation in certain Oregon lands
• Eliminate judicial review of the adequacy of NEPA documents
• Reinstate the requirement for approval of state and local governments before federal acquisition of private property with Land and Water Conservation Fund monies
• Reissue Trump's Schedule F executive order to ease firing of federal employees
• Maintain the current "Ten-Day Notice" rule for coal mining regulation
• Develop additional water storage capacity across the arid west
• Consolidate federal water working groups
• Implement actions to improve forecasts of water availability
• Clarify the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act
• Reinstate Presidential Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West
• Seek congressional reauthorization of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations