Trump Visit Highlights What’s at Stake in November: Over 14,000 Clean Energy Jobs, Hundreds of Environmental Protections

Phoenix, AZ—As President Biden’s clean energy plan continues to be a boom for Arizonans, Donald Trump will visit Phoenix tomorrow to engage in more election denialism and revisionist history about his failed presidency.

While President Biden’s clean energy policies are creating jobs in Arizona and across the country, Trump dismisses climate change as a “hoax” and “bullshit.” During his disastrous term as president, Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental protections, imposed tariffs on solar, tried to eliminate the electric vehicle tax credit, and slow-walked the leasing and planning processes for renewable energy projects. His actions cost Americans 1.1. million clean energy jobs.

Months out from the 2024 election, Trump and his allies are already putting the White House up for sale. Just weeks ago,Trump offered Big Oil companies a “deal”: $1 billion to usher in their agenda of crushing clean energy while Big Oil price-gouges consumers and rakes in billions.

• BIG OIL IS ALL-IN FOR TRUMP: Trump gave $25 billion in tax breaks to Big Oil when he was president. Now, they’re financing his legal defense and his campaign. So, it’s no surprise they’re literally writing up orders for him to sign on day one.
  • Trumpand his allied groups have already raised over $7.8 million from the oil and gas industry so far in the 2024 cycle. They received nearly $15 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2020 election.
    
• PRESIDENT BIDEN STANDS UP TO BIG OIL: 63% of voters say they want the president to stand up to Big Oil, not cozy up to them. President Biden did just that with a clean energy plan that represents the most significant climate investment in American history, all while creating more than 270,000 good-paying jobs across the nation.
  
• TRUMP GETS AN F IN ARIZONA: As president, Trump decimated Obama-era climate policies that would have helped families save billions on health care costs and protected thousands from climate-linked medical problems.
  • FAIL: Trump imposed tariffs on solar energy, tried to eliminate the electric vehicle tax credit, and either delayed or ended renewable energy projects’ leasing and planning processes. Arizona is one of the sunniest states in the nation and ranks second in solar energy potential.
  • FAIL: Trump’s repeal of clean car regulations was estimated to cost Arizonans over $404 million annually. If elected, Trump would further reverse clean energy economic progress, as he promised to end tax credits for U.S.-manufactured EVs.

A second Trump term promises to be, in the words of Politico, “an all-out war on climate science and policies” in which Trump would be, in his own words, a “dictator on day one”.  Since the passage of President Biden’s clean energy plan, congressional Republicans have voted to repeal it more than 30 times. If Trump wins in November, he’s all but guaranteed to gut the plan, which would be devastating for Arizona’s clean energy economy, job growth, and the health and safety of all the families who call Arizona home.

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