Earthjustice Statement on House Ways and Means Reconciliation Bill

This week, the House Ways and Means Committee held a markup of its legislative text for the Republican budget reconciliation bill. The bill would effectively cut almost all of the clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act. After the markup, Earthjustice Vice President of Policy and Legislation Raúl García issued the following statement:

“House Republicans are taking a wrecking ball to our clean energy economy and hurting American households. Repealing the clean energy tax credits will increase energy prices, create chaos and uncertainty in the clean energy sector, and endanger the hundreds of billions of dollars in investment and hundreds of thousands of new jobs already flowing to our communities. Clean energy, manufacturing, supply chain lines, clean vehicles — it is all sacrificed in this bill for the benefit of billionaires. The bill locks us into a future of fossil fuels and dirty energy instead of modernizing our grid and cleaning up pollution with cheaper clean energy sources and technologies.”