“Republican leadership will stop at nothing to follow the extremists in their party to gut clean energy, all to give handouts to billionaire fossil fuel executives. There is no other reason why the Republicans in the House would actively oppose clean energy, which not only will address costs for hardworking families, but also help to increase the amount of energy on our grids. The extreme amendments to the SPEED Act fueled by misinformation that explicitly attack clean energy reveal the bill for what it always has been: a fossil fuel giveaway that cuts out community input and puts our health and safety at risk to help Big Polluters, all while our energy costs keep going up. Congress should be focused on real solutions to skyrocketing energy prices starting with stopping Trump’s effort to ban clean energy and speeding up the approval of grid improvements and clean energy projects that are cheap and quick to deploy.”

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