FROM: Sara Chieffo, Vice President of Government Affairs, League of Conservation Voters
TO: Interested Parties
MEMO: House Reconciliation Bill is the Most Anti-Environmental Bill Ever & Would Stop Clean Energy Progress in Its Tracks 

The reconciliation bill Speaker Johnson and House Republicans just jammed through is a sweeping measure that amounts to the most anti-environmental bill in our nation’s history. It will mean higher gas and electricity costs for struggling families and businesses, tanking the U.S. manufacturing resurgence, ceding leadership to China and increased exposure to pollution for our kids and our communities. We are deeply disappointed by the House Republicans who failed to fix these provisions despite stating their support for these popular clean energy investments. It is notable that the majority of clean energy investments in this country are in congressional districts represented by Republicans, including a number of extreme members representing those districts doing polluters’ bidding in advocating for full repeal. Voting to gut these investments means voting against your own constituents, threatening their jobs and leaving them with higher electricity prices. People are deeply worried about our economy and rising costs, and our country simply cannot afford to halt clean energy progress in its tracks. Let’s be clear why this is being done — to benefit their Big Oil backers and to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. 

A number of Republican Senators have already made clear that the House’s sledgehammer approach to clean energy is not going to fly. We call on them and their colleagues to deliver on commitments to ensure investments in affordable, clean energy continue.

Given the scope of the environmental harms, pro-polluter provisions, and clean energy attacks, we have distilled the harm into a top 5 worst hits list and summarized the 78 anti-environmental provisions included in this disastrous legislation.

Top 5 Polluter Billionaire Giveaways in the House GOP Reconciliation Bill

1. Selling off our public lands and waters to billionaire polluters damaging our communities, water and public health.
2. Increasing families’ energy costs by ending clean energy programs, rebates and incentives and repealing vehicle efficiency standards.
3. Putting polluting billionaires above the law by creating pay-to-play schemes and other sweetheart deals for oil and gas executives to jam through massive polluting infrastructure projects while sidestepping review, community input, and judicial scrutiny for drilling, pipelines, and methane gas exports.
4. Threatening our health and increasing families’ medical costs by eliminating pollution reduction programs that clean up our schools, dirty diesel trucks and buses, and ports all while cutting funding for communities to even be able to track harmful air pollution.
5. Gutting widely-supported clean energy tax credit investments, which means higher electricity costs for struggling families and businesses, tanking the U.S. manufacturing resurgence, and ceding leadership to China.