Huffman Statement on White House Order Undermining Clean Energy

Washington, D.C. – Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement:

“In his latest imperial edict, President Trump attacks clean energy — targeting the very industries creating good-paying jobs, cutting costs for families, and keeping the lights on, all to appease the House Freedom Caucus and secure votes for the disastrous Republican budget bill. 
 
“We should be doubling down on investing in clean energy, American manufacturing, climate-safe infrastructure, and the clean energy workers powering our future, not selling them out to Big Oil and the far-right fringe. 
 
“Republicans just rammed through a budget bill that opens millions of acres of public lands for drilling and hands Big Oil more than $15 billion in new tax breaks, but they have the gall to cry about so-called ‘preferential treatment’ for solar and wind. A century of subsidies and thousands of unused leases aren’t enough for today’s oil barons; they want even more from the president they helped put in office.  
 
“The Trump administration would rather poison our air, torch our climate, and surrender clean energy leadership to China than simply admit that wind, solar, and batteries work. It’s wrong. It’s reckless. And it’s un-American.” 
 

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