JD Vance’s Visit to Arizona Highlights What’s at Stake in November: Over 15K Clean Energy Jobs and Hundreds of Environmental Protections

Glendale, AZ — Today, Republican Vice President Nominee JD Vance visits Arizona, which stands to lose more than 15,000 clean energy jobs and $11 billion in investments if Trump wins in November. These clean energy jobs and investment funds were spurred by the Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy plan, which congressional Republicans have already voted to repeal more than 42 times. According to recent polling, more than seven in ten voters support the Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy plan.

Unfortunately, JD Vance is an extremist who opposes clean energy and environmental protections. Vance has cast doubt on whether human activity is driving climate change, and said that “this low environmental crisis” was created to “justify Democratic donors.” He’s repeatedly criticized the EPA and supported legislation to gut environmental regulations around clean air & water.

“Arizonans know firsthand the impacts of climate change, from extreme heat to wildfires,” said André Crombie, interim States Managing Director for Climate Power.  “Arizonans also know that the clean energy investments from the Biden-Harris clean energy plan are reducing pollution, lowering costs, and bringing good-paying clean energy jobs into communities. A Trump-Vance administration would be catastrophic for our climate and economy and result in an all-out reversal of the clean energy progress made under the Biden-Harris administration over the past three and a half years.”

Trump and his allies are already putting the White House up for sale. Just weeks before his felony convictions in New York, Trump offered Big Oil companies a “deal”: $1 billion to implement their agenda of crushing clean energy. While president, Trump gave $25 billion in tax breaks to Big Oil. Now, they’re financing his legal defense and his campaign.

Vice President Harris will put the American people before Big Oil. 63% of voters say they want the president to stand up to Big Oil, not cozy up to them. The Biden-Harris administration stood up to Big Oil with a clean energy plan that represents the most significant climate investment in American history, all while lowering costs and creating more than 300,000 good-paying jobs—jobs that Trump will likely kill if elected in November.

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