The Republican Party Tax Bill can have a harmful effect on carbon removal efforts in the United States, according to energy experts.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved a comprehensive package of tax cuts, reforming medical aid and immigration spending, which is promises to the promises of President Donald Trump’s campaign.
The environmental policy experts told ABC News that tax cuts will also affect sustainability efforts and local climate goals.
ALYS CAMPAIGNE, a climate initiative leader at the Center for Southern Environmental Law, told ABC News that some of the largest environmental effects will come in the form of discounts to clean energy credits.
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The campaign said that the draft law will eliminate or lead to a gradual disposal of some tax credits for clean energy during the Biden era.
The campaign said: “What Trump and the Republicans want more is the extension of the tax cuts that have nothing to do with energy,” the campaign said. “They are really trying to find ways to pay for the wider tax cuts.”
New energy projects must explode within 60 days or “placed in service” by the end of 2028, says the bill.
The legislation also dates back to the law to reduce inflation for 2022, and is considered the largest investment in clean energy by the federal government.
Solar cruelty credits will be stripped on the surface and electric cars under the invoice as well.
At least four of the Republican Senators Energy tax credits, including support for traditional and renewable energy sources, have urged.
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Senate-Connectty members said that cancellation is widely for current credits “can lead to major disturbances” in those states.
The campaign said: “It is a chaotic political process due to this tension between the various investments in playing within the Republican Assembly.”
It can be up to 330,000 jobs in danger, and electricity bills for families and companies may increase by $ 51 billion, according to what he said. Solar Energy Industries Association.
“This bill threatens the clean energy industry at a time that proves that it is not only economically beneficial – costs, creating jobs, and feeding local economies – but also necessary for the future of energy in America,” Andrew Reagan, head of America’s clean energy, said in a statement.
Lori Luds, CEO of Climate Company, ABC News, told the House of Representatives voted “to create an American energy crisis”, describing it as a “reckless betrayal” of representatives of the House of Representatives.
“Every member of the House of Representatives voted to risk in their areas, increase costs and threaten the energy made in America, the energy will have to answer this vote to the homeland.”
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The campaign said that the states led by Republicans and Congress regions have benefited from billions of dollars in the clean energy manufacturing investments that are stimulated by subsidies during the Biden era.
The campaign said that environmental policy experts are also concerned about the provisions mentioned in the draft law that would allow the pollutants to avoid supervision by paying fees.
The huge tax bill has now been sent to the Senate, which is likely to review the draft law significantly during the next month.
“This battle has not ended yet,” Lods said. “Republicans in the Senate have explained that the Parliament’s bill is unacceptable.”
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In addition, the Non -Partisan Congress Budget Office (CBO) continues to review the legislation.
There is still time to change or remove many of these provisions, such as removing departments that authorized the sale of hundreds of thousands of public lands in Nevada and Utah.
The campaign said: “The language is still changing,” adding that many of them are widely written so that it is difficult to understand exactly what the effects will be if the law enters into force.
On the opening day, Trump announced that “the state of national energy emergency”, claiming that leasing, development, production, transportation, refining and energy generation in the United States is “very sufficient.”
Since then, Trump has tried to enhance fuel production from fossils, including signing an executive order to expand mining and use coal. A leasing plan abroad has also been announced on the American outer continental shelf, which allows increased excavation before Ministry of Interior In April.
The Environmental Protection Agency initiative is called “Operating the great American return“Includes a column” to restore American energy dominance, “which claims to reduce the energy bills of the Americans.
Experts say, however, the United States has no energy crisis. In 2023, the Biden administration produced 12.9 million barrels per day, and broke the record in 2019 at 12.3 million barrels, according to data from US Energy Information Management. Over the past few years, the United States has been The largest producer From the world’s oil and gas.
Trump prompted a quick action of the bill, urged the members of the Senate to act “as soon as possible” in A. Post on his page on social media After the narrow victory at home.
“We can celebrate this pass at home for a few hours, but it’s now time to reach the Senate,” said the White House press secretary at the White House.
