CAC’s Alt: Senate Reconciliation Bill Raises Rates and Reneges on America’s Clean Energy Future
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 28, 2025
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CAC’s Alt: Senate Reconciliation Bill Raises Rates and Reneges on America’s Clean Energy Future
Washington, D.C. – The Senate has begun debate on the reconciliation bill that seeks to establish massive cuts to climate, clean energy and other investments in order to deliver unprecedented tax breaks for billionaires. Margie Alt, Director of the Climate Action Campaign issued the following statement in response to this development:
“The Senate reconciliation bill reneges on the promise of America’s clean energy future, raising rates for consumers and mortgaging our health and environment to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires. It effectively repeals the clean energy tax credits that have created jobs, encouraged new business, re-invigorated US manufacturing, and driven down energy costs and climate pollution. This is the most anti-environment bill in history. With a heatwave overwhelming much of the country this week, now is not the time to force families to pay more, our kids to breathe dirty air, and all of us to suffer more climate change-driven extreme weather catastrophes just so billionaires can get richer. This bill should be rejected.”
Additional Information:
- Before the 2024 election, clean energy companies producing wind and solar energy represented the fastest growing economic sector in the country.
- Business certainty afforded by the Inflation Reduction Act Investments helped to created more than 400,000 jobs and drove down the cost of clean energy below that of fossil fuels.
- Fossil fuel energy prices are up since January.
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