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Senate Republicans Celebrated Clean Energy Boom in Their States, Now Face Vote to Kill It
June 18, 2025
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MEMO: This Republican Rate Hike is going to bite those who vote for it.
If Congressional Republicans jam through the disastrous mess of a Big Ugly Bill—raising costs for families while giving billionaires another handout— they should expect a fierce backlash from their constituents.
June 30, 2025
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Memo: Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful’ Rate Hike Threatens To Drive Americans’ Utility Bills Even Higher
American families are getting hit hard by rising utility bills. Since January, electricity rates have surged by 9%, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Energy. Now, with record-breaking heat straining power grids across the country, thousands are facing power outages, forced rationing of energy, and rising oil and gas prices due to turmoil in the Middle East. Despite this energy crisis, Republicans in Congress are threatening a new National Rate Hike that would drive energy costs even higher.
June 26, 2025
Memo: Intentionally Unworkable Republican Sourcing Mandates Would Tear Down Budding Domestic Supply Chains, Raise Energy Prices
The House Republicans’ draft reconciliation text for the Ways & Means Committee includes several attempts to kneecap clean energy tax incentives without having to swallow the political poison pill of explicitly repealing these popular programs, at a time of rising electricity demand and rising energy prices for consumers. The most nefarious and hardest-to-understand provision? A […]
May 13, 2025
MEMO: Repealing Transferability of Energy Tax Credits: A Move that Would Save us $0, Kill Jobs, and Raise Energy Prices
An under-reported feature of existing energy tax credits supported by at least 36 Republican House members is the ability to sell and buy investment, manufacturing, and production tax credits – known as transferability.
May 13, 2025
Memo: Phasing Out Tax Credits Would Devastate Clean Energy Manufacturing
Families across the country are reeling from high costs of living – and Trump’s policies are making it worse.
May 5, 2025
MEMO: La Agenda de Trump está Aumentando los Precios de Manera Universal
Familias en todo el país están sintiendo el impacto del alto costo de vida, y las políticas de Trump lo están empeorando. Sus aranceles representan el mayor aumento de impuestos a los estadounidenses en la historia, y su plan de eliminar inversiones en energía limpia provocaría un alza en los precios de la energía y […]
April 15, 2025
MEMO: Trump’s Agenda is Driving Up Costs Everywhere
Families across the country are reeling from high costs of living – and Trump’s policies are making it worse.
April 15, 2025
New Polling: Confidence Plummets in Trump Bringing Down Costs
According to a new poll from Hart Research conducted on behalf of Climate Power, President Trump’s approval rating is underwater as Americans lose confidence in his ability to bring down costs.
March 21, 2025
MEMO: Trump’s Politicization of Disaster Aid Hangs Over First Presidential Trip
As President Trump prepares to tour the damage from climate catastrophes in Western North Carolina and Southern California on Friday, his long record of playing politics with disaster relief – and his ongoing weaponization of these tragedies – casts a dark shadow.
January 23, 2025
Post-Election Memo: How Climate & Clean Energy Helped Win Michigan
To: Interested Parties From: Lori Lodes, Climate Power Executive Director Date: November 6, 2024 Re: How Climate & Clean Energy Helped Win Michigan The future of America’s investment in clean energy and EV technology was put front and center in the Senate race in Michigan this election, and voters delivered a clear verdict by sending […]
November 6, 2024