Trump proudly signs bill that will kneecap American industry and make life more expensive for working people
Today, Donald Trump signed into law a devastating piece of legislation that codifies essentially the entire wishlists of Big Oil, corporate polluters, and billionaires. The bill raids the pockets of working-class Americans he once claimed to fight for and hands their hard-earned cash to the ultra-rich, while putting America’s climate pollution reduction goals further out of reach. In response, Evergreen Action Executive Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement:
“Donald Trump just stood in the White House Rose Garden and lied to the American people about what his Big Oil Billionaire Bonanza will actually do. In an absurd display of obsessive hatred for America’s cheapest and fastest-to-deploy energy sources, Trump proudly signed a bill that will kneecap American industry and make life more expensive for working people.
“Even Trump has little idea what’s in this sprawling legislation chock-full of destructive policies—and he clearly doesn’t care. To secure it, he promised holdouts he would gut what’s left of clean energy investments and hinted he may deny or delay permitting for wind and solar projects.
“All of this just days after nearly three-quarters of the population sweltered in 90-degree heat and one in 10 bore blistering 100-degree heat in one of the worst climate-fueled heatwaves yet. It sent countless people from Chicago to Pittsburgh and North Carolina to New York to hospitals with heat-related illnesses. Climate disasters are intensifying. Power-hungry AI is driving up electricity demand. And now, thanks to this bill, we’ll have fewer tools to meet that demand, while Americans will pay more for less reliable energy.
“There’s no sugarcoating it: It’s a grim Independence Day. Our science-backed climate pollution reduction goals are slipping out of reach. Trump and Republicans have committed a crime against our climate that will reverberate across generations. And we’ll all suffer for it.”
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