Rudhdi Karnik, rudhdi.karnik@sierraclub.org, 202-495-3055
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made a statement that federal tax credits for the wind and solar industries should be eliminated.
In response, Jodie Van Horn, Director of Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 Campaign, released the following statement:
“Scott Pruitt is once again trying to stack the deck to prop up his dirty fossil fuel accomplices, who have been subsidized for decades at the expense of our children’s health. For nine months, he’s been rigging the system to help corporate polluters and this proposal is more of the same.
“Despite what Scott Pruitt or anyone in this administration may do to try to slow the growth of wind and solar, clean energy continues to flourish across the country. Nearly 50 U.S. cities have now committed to be powered entirely with clean energy as more and more communities see the tangible, local benefits of clean and renewable sources of energy.
“Cutting support for clean energy will come at the cost of our health and our economy. However, this decision falls on Congress, not Pruitt’s EPA.”
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