
Tell your governor to commit to 100% renewable.
One in 3 Americans live in a state committed to 100% clean energy. Why not you? Tell the governor to commit to 100% renewable.
Tuesday ceremony will focus on new law to promote clean energy, lower U.S. emissions
Four weeks after President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, the White House will host an event on Sept. 13 to celebrate this unprecedented plan to fund climate action. Environment America state directors and staff with The Public Interest Network are traveling to Washington, D.C. to attend the ceremony, including:
Joining them: Lisa Frank, executive director of Environment America’s Washington Legislative Office; Sean Hoffmann, federal legislative advocate with Environment America; Danny Katz, director of CoPIRG (Colorado Public Interest Research Group); Matt Casale, U.S. PIRG’s Massachusetts-based environment campaigns director; and Dan Xie, political director for the Student PIRGs.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes the United States’ largest investment ever in policies designed to stymie climate change. It allocates roughly $370 billion in tax credits and other programs to expand clean energy and reduce planet-warming pollution. The law invests in:
The bill represents a compromise and includes some provisions that will benefit fossil fuel development, including requiring lease sales for offshore drilling and tax incentives that would help coal and gas plants. However, modeling by Energy Innovation found emissions increases from these provisions are offset 24 to 1 by the bill’s climate-friendly provisions. The researchers also found that implementing the bill could prevent 3,700 to 3,900 deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks each year by 2030.
One in 3 Americans live in a state committed to 100% clean energy. Why not you? Tell the governor to commit to 100% renewable.
SEND YOUR MESSAGE