“EPA is planning to cancel a $7 billion program funding solar projects in low-income communities across the country, people familiar with the agency’s plan said Tuesday.
The move marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate funding to expand solar energy in the United States provided by Democrats’ 2022 climate law.”
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“Casey Katims, the executive director of U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 state governors, said in a response that states across the country, led by governors of both parties, are already leveraging the program to lower people’s energy bills and unleash energy generation.
‘There’s no excuse for efforts to undermine this vital program and increase costs for Americans,’ Katims said.”
Launched in 2017 by the governors of Washington, New York, and California to help fill the void left by the U.S. federal government’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Alliance has grown to include 24 governors from across the U.S. representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population. Governors in the Alliance have pledged to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent by 2025, 50-52 percent by 2030, and 61-66 percent by 2035, all below 2005 levels, and collectively achieve overall net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as practicable, and no later than 2050.
The Alliance’s states and territories continue to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect public health, and have a long record of action and results. In fact, the latest data shows that as of 2023, the Alliance has reduced its collective net greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent below 2005 levels, while increasing collective GDP by 34 percent, and is on track to meet its near-term climate goal of reducing collective greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
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