The tax bill of the multi -million dollar Republican Party could have a detrimental impact on the decarbonization efforts in the USA., According to energy experts.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved a broad package of tax cuts, medical reform and immigration expenses that advances the campaign promises of President Donald Trump.
Tax cuts would also affect sustainability efforts and national climatic objectives, they told ABC News, environmental policy experts.
Some of the greatest environmental impacts will come in the form of cuts to clean energy loans, Alys Campaign, a climate initiative leader for the Southern Environmental Law Center, A ABC News.
Solar panels are built in the solar energy manufacturing factory Qcells in Dalton, Georgia, on March 2, 2023.
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The bill would repeal or eliminate some of the clean energy prosecutors of the Biden era before, said Campaigne.
“What Trump and Republicans want to extend the tax cuts that have nothing to do with energy,” said campaign. “They are really trying to find ways to pay their broader tax cuts.”
The new energy projects must begin within 60 days or be “placed in service” at the end of 2028, according to the bill.
The legislation also returns to the Law on Inflation Reduction 2022, considered the largest investment of clean energy by the federal government.
Credits for solar fees on the roof and electric vehicles would also be stripped under the invoice.
At least four Republican senators They have urged the continuation of fiscal energy credits, including support for traditional and renewable energy sources.
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The large -scale repeal of current credits “could lead to significant interruptions” in those states, senators, led by Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, said in a letter on April 9. Billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments of the Biden Subsidies have benefited the Republican states and the districts of the Congress, campaigns said.
“It is a messy political process due to this tension between the different interests invested in play within the Republican Caucus,” said campaign.
Up to 330,000 jobs could be at risk, and electricity bills for families and companies could increase by $ 51 billion, according to the SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION.
“This bill threatens the clean energy industry at a time when it is demonstrating not only economically beneficial, sincere costs, creating jobs and feeding local economies, but also essential for the future of United States energy,” said Andrew Reagan, president of clean energy for the United States, in a statement.
Lori Lodes, executive director of Climate Power, a climatic communications firm, told ABC News that the Republicans of the House of Representatives voted “to create an American energy crisis,” calling it an “reckless betrayal” of the components of the camera representatives.
“All chamber members who voted to risk jobs in their districts, increase costs and threaten the energy done in America will have to respond to that vote at home,” Lodes said.
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The states led by Republicans and Congress districts have benefited from billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments stimulated by the subsidies of the Biden era, said campaign.
Environmental policy experts are also concerned about the provisions in the bill that would allow polluting to avoid supervision when paying a rate, said Campaigne.
The mass tax bill has now been sent to the Senate, which probably significantly reviews the bill during the next month.
“This fight is not over,” Lodes said. “Senate Republicans have made it clear that the Chamber’s Law project is unacceptable.”
Plants grow through a variety of solar panels in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 6, 2022.
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In addition, the Non -Party Congress Budget Office (CBO) continues to review the legislation.
There is still time for many of these provisions to be changed or eliminated, such as the elimination of sections that authorized the sale of hundreds of thousands of public land acres in Nevada and Utah.
“Language is still changing,” said Campaigne, added that much of it is written so widely that it is difficult to understand exactly what the impacts will be if the law will enter into force.
On the day of the inauguration, Trump declared that an “emergency of national energy”, to affirm that the lease, development, production, transport, refining capacity and energy generation in the United States is “too inappropriate.”
Since then, Trump has tried to promote greater production of fossil fuels, including the signing of an executive order to expand mining and the use of coal. The high seas lease on the US exterior platform of the US Interior Ministry In April.
An initiative of the Environmental Protection Agency called “Feeding the great American return“It includes a pillar to” restore the domain of American energy “, which states that they will reduce energy invoices for Americans.
Experts say that, however, the United States does not have an energy crisis. In 2023, the Biden administration produced 12.9 million barrels per day, breaking the record established in 2019 in 12.3 million barrels, according to data from the Energy Information Administration of the United States. In recent years, the United States has been greater producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
Trump pressed quickly on the bill, urging senators to act “as soon as possible” in a Publish on your social media page After the close victory in the house.
“We can celebrate this pass in the house for a couple of hours, but now it is the time for the Senate to work,” said White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt, during the White House press session on Thursday.
