Clean Energy Slashed
“The bill has climate implications beyond gutting clean energy incentives,” Yale Climate Connection writes, with measures that eliminate the federal tax on methane pollution and speed up approval for new fossil fuel projects. “The bill also proposes major cuts to Medicaid, thus limiting access to health care for many vulnerable people, even as climate change increases health risks from weather disasters, insect-borne diseases, and extreme heat. And if passed, the bill would eliminate environmental and climate justice block grants.”
U.S. House Slashes Clean Energy Tax Credits, Boosts Climate Pollution by a Billion Tonnes Per Year
U.S. House Slashes Clean Energy Tax Credits, Boosts Climate Pollution by a Billion Tonnes Per Year
U.S. House Slashes Clean Energy Tax Credits, Boosts Climate Pollution by a Billion Tonnes Per Year
By a 215-214 vote last Thursday, the United States House of Representatives adopted a massive tax bill that eliminates hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits to households and businesses and increases the country’s climate pollut…Mitchell Beer (The Energy Mix)