{"id":30896,"date":"2025-07-01T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30896"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:24:27","slug":"senate-version-of-trumps-policy-bill-ends-many-clean-energy-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30896","title":{"rendered":"Senate Version of Trump\u2019s Policy Bill Ends Many Clean Energy Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.<\/p>\n

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When Congress enacted President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s signature climate law in 2022, Democrats made a bet. They knew the law would spur billions of dollars of investments<\/a> in solar arrays, battery factories and other clean energy projects, primarily in Republican-led districts. That was designed to give the law staying power.<\/p>\n

But that wager failed spectacularly on Tuesday as Senate Republicans voted to dismantle many of the law\u2019s lucrative tax credits for solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and other green technologies as part of President Trump\u2019s giant domestic policy bill.<\/p>\n

Nearly all Republicans voted for the bill even as industry groups, labor unions and even some members of their own party warned that axing those clean energy credits could erase thousands of jobs in red states<\/a> and raise electricity prices nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the final hours of debate, a few Senate Republicans managed to secure a one-year extension for wind and solar companies to qualify for existing tax breaks. But the overall bill was still expected to force businesses to abandon projects and to slow the growth of clean energy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When asked whether he heard from businesses about the jobs at stake in the wrangling over the clean energy credits, Senator Jim Justice, Republican of West Virginia, said on Tuesday: \u201cSure I did. But I think we\u2019ve got a good bill.\u201d Mr. Justice, who owns three coal companies, added that he supported eliminating the clean energy subsidies to \u201cmake it a level playing field\u201d for all energy sources, including fossil fuels. (The final bill added a new tax subsidy, however, for metallurgical coal, a fossil fuel used in steel making.)<\/p>\n

Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah and a lead negotiator of the bill\u2019s energy provisions, said that the one-year extension for wind and solar companies would preserve some well-paying jobs. Still, he acknowledged that other moderate Republican senators ultimately had \u201cbigger\u201d priorities in the domestic policy package than clean energy, including changes to support rural health care and nutrition assistance.<\/p>\n

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By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.When Congress enacted President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s signature climate law in 2022, Democrats made a bet. They knew the law would spur billions of dollars of investments in solar arrays, battery factories and other clean energy projects, primarily in Republican-led districts. That was designed to give the law staying power.But that wager failed spectacularly on Tuesday as Senate Republicans voted to dismantle many of the law\u2019s lucrative tax credits for solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and other green technologies as part of President Trump\u2019s giant domestic policy bill.Nearly all Republicans voted for the bill even as industry groups, labor unions and even some members of their own party warned that axing those clean energy credits could erase thousands of jobs in red states and raise electricity prices nationwide.In the final hours of debate, a few Senate Republicans managed to secure a one-year extension for wind and solar companies to qualify for existing tax breaks. But the overall bill was still expected to force businesses to abandon projects and to slow the growth of clean energy.When asked whether he heard from businesses about the jobs at stake in the wrangling over the clean energy credits, Senator Jim Justice, Republican of West Virginia, said on Tuesday: \u201cSure I did. But I think we\u2019ve got a good bill.\u201d Mr. Justice, who owns three coal companies, added that he supported eliminating the clean energy subsidies to \u201cmake it a level playing field\u201d for all energy sources, including fossil fuels. (The final bill added a new tax subsidy, however, for metallurgical coal, a fossil fuel used in steel making.)Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah and a lead negotiator of the bill\u2019s energy provisions, said that the one-year extension for wind and solar companies would preserve some well-paying jobs. Still, he acknowledged that other moderate Republican senators ultimately had \u201cbigger\u201d priorities in the domestic policy package than clean energy, including changes to support rural health care and nutrition assistance.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":30898,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30896","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\/30896","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=30896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30899,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30896\/revisions\/30899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}