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Senate Republicans Celebrated Clean Energy Boom in Their States, Now Face Vote to Kill It
June 18, 2025
ICYMI: New Report Shows Arizona Manufacturing Jobs at Risk If Current House Budget Bill Becomes Law
Phoenix – A new analysis from the BlueGreen Alliance warns that over 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs are at risk under the budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House and currently being considered in the U.S. Senate. The bill would gut clean manufacturing tax credits—posing a direct threat to economic growth and job creation. This total includes: Arizona is […]
June 16, 2025
30 Arizona Nonprofits Urge Congress to Protect Clean Energy and Environmental Justice Investments
PHOENIX– Today, 30 Arizona-based organizations are calling on Arizona’s U.S. senators, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, to stand strong and protect transformative clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmental justice investments established under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In a letter sent to the senators, the diverse group of nonprofits highlighted the powerful economic, public health, […]
June 10, 2025
ICYMI: Analysis says Reconciliation Bill risks 9,400 Arizona jobs in the solar industry
Phoenix, AZ. – A new report released by the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) highlights the massive job losses that will occur if the current federal budget reconciliation bill is approved by the U.S. Senate. According to the SEIA analysis, “330,000 current and future jobs across the country could be at risk if the reconciliation bill is enacted […]
June 4, 2025
Rep. Juan Ciscomani Betrays Arizonans, Votes to Put Hundreds of Clean Energy Jobs in Arizona’s 6th District on the Chopping Block
Washington, DC — Today, Representative Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) voted for House Republicans’ extreme budget reconciliation bill—legislation that repeals America’s clean energy investments and strips critical resources from Arizona families, all while delivering new tax handouts to billionaires and big corporations. With a vote of 215-214, every vote cast by Republican members of Congress was a deciding […]
May 22, 2025
10,635 Arizona Clean Energy Jobs Already Lost or Threatened Under Trump, with Thousands More at Risk
PHOENIX — In just 100 days in office, President Trump’s tariffs, executive orders, and all-out assault on clean energy have put Arizona’s clean energy boom at risk. New data released today from Climate Power shows that 95 clean energy projects have been threatened, delayed, or canceled nationally since Trump took office, representing $71.24 billion in investment and […]
April 30, 2025
Arizona Clean Energy Leaders Warn: Repealing Federal Investments Will Kill Jobs and Raise Costs
PHOENIX – On Thursday, April 17, Arizona leaders, including Maren Mahoney, director of Governor Katie Hobbs’ Office of Resiliency, joined Climate Power for a press call to discuss how a potential repeal of America’s clean energy investments by Congress and the Trump Administration would raise energy prices and threaten thousands of good-paying jobs in the state. The House Ways and Means […]
April 17, 2025
ICYMI: Hoffman and Trump’s EPA Chief Push Anti-Regulation Agenda in AZ—Climate Power Responds
Phoenix – Arizona state Senator Jake Hoffman held a roundtable at the Arizona Senate with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin and representatives from Arizona Public Service, Honeywell Aerospace and others. The conversation last week centered on misleading claims that EPA clean air and energy protections are harming Arizona’s economy. Sen. Hoffman’s and the Trump […]
March 25, 2025
Correcting the Record: Renewable Energy Lowers Costs for Arizonans
Phoenix, AZ – On Monday, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright addressed a gathering of oil and gas executives at CERAWeek in Houston, the nation’s largest annual assembly of energy officials. As reported in The New York Times, Mr. Wright extolled the necessity of U.S. oil and gas production and dismissed renewable sources, asserting that scaling up […]
March 12, 2025
State Rep. Aaron Márquez, Solar Experts and Homeowners Highlight IRA Solar Tax Credits to Keep Energy Costs Down for Arizona Families
(Phoenix, AZ) – Today, Arizona State Representative Aaron Márquez, solar industry leaders, and solar homeowners highlighted the urgent need to protect the solar tax credits included in the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). These credits have helped Arizona families lower their energy and tax bills. The credits have also helped create good-paying jobs and grow Phoenix’s clean […]
March 7, 2025
ICYMI: Trump Defunds Critical Clean Energy Investments in Arizona
PHOENIX – A number of federal funds supporting clean energy rebates and key investments in clean energy projects in Arizona are being illegally withheld by the Trump Administration. Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies released a summary of those funds in a series of seven fact […]
February 19, 2025