ENERGY NEWS NETWORK • April 21, 2022
Dozens of energy projects in Republican districts have been made possible by the tax incentives included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which the GOP opposed. That’s creating some awkward dynamics for GOP lawmakers who are seeking to wipe out Biden’s clean-energy spending plans as part of any deal to avert a U.S. debt default. The White House, and supporters of Biden’s clean energy programs, are eagerly seizing on the contradiction. “The Biden Clean Energy Plan has helped create more than 140,000 clean energy jobs across the U.S. — the majority of which are in Republican-held districts,” said Lori Lodes, executive director of the group Climate Power. “Now MAGA extremists are threatening to implode our country’s economy — and the clean energy manufacturing boom that’s happening in their communities — to protect their own corporate, anti-climate interests,” she said.