{"id":28247,"date":"2025-05-21T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28247"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:27:04","slug":"a-climate-law-you-say-never-heard-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28247","title":{"rendered":"A Climate Law, You Say? Never Heard of It."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Inflation Reduction Act was once hailed as the biggest climate law in U.S. history. But as supporters try to save it, they\u2019ve stopped talking about the environment altogether.<\/p>\n

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When it passed in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was hailed by Democrats and environmentalists as the most important piece of climate legislation<\/a> in American history.<\/p>\n

But today, as House Republicans debate whether to repeal the hundreds of billions of dollars that the law provides for solar panels, electric vehicles and other technologies designed to fight global warming, supporters of the law rarely mention the planet.<\/p>\n

Instead, the law\u2019s defenders argue that the tax credits for battery factories or wind farms are creating manufacturing jobs around the country and will reduce electricity prices and help the United States to compete in an A.I. race against China.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sign of how quickly climate has faded from the national agenda<\/a> under President Trump, who has dismissed the risks of global warming and has rooted out any mention of climate change among federal agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re no longer talking about the environment,\u201d said Chad Farrell, the founder of Encore Renewable Energy, based in Vermont. \u201cWe\u2019re talking dollars and cents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Farrell was among the solar industry leaders who met in Washington last week to lobby Congress to preserve many of the law\u2019s clean energy provisions, saying they were essential for the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

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The Inflation Reduction Act was once hailed as the biggest climate law in U.S. history. But as supporters try to save it, they\u2019ve stopped talking about the environment altogether.When it passed in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was hailed by Democrats and environmentalists as the most important piece of climate legislation in American history.But today, as House Republicans debate whether to repeal the hundreds of billions of dollars that the law provides for solar panels, electric vehicles and other technologies designed to fight global warming, supporters of the law rarely mention the planet.Instead, the law\u2019s defenders argue that the tax credits for battery factories or wind farms are creating manufacturing jobs around the country and will reduce electricity prices and help the United States to compete in an A.I. race against China.It\u2019s a sign of how quickly climate has faded from the national agenda under President Trump, who has dismissed the risks of global warming and has rooted out any mention of climate change among federal agencies.\u201cWe\u2019re no longer talking about the environment,\u201d said Chad Farrell, the founder of Encore Renewable Energy, based in Vermont. \u201cWe\u2019re talking dollars and cents.\u201dMr. Farrell was among the solar industry leaders who met in Washington last week to lobby Congress to preserve many of the law\u2019s clean energy provisions, saying they were essential for the U.S. economy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}