Tom Erb
@Erb_Tom10
Climate & energy policy for @SenatorHick. 🏔️🌲☀️ Formerly & always #TeamPeters. 🏝️ Pomona College Proud 🏛️💙
In some good ✨personal news✨, I am @SenatorHick's new Senior Policy Advisor. We have more to do to address climate change & build a clean energy economy. Excited to work for the great people of Colorado & an incredible climate champion. Let's go pass some climate policy! 🌲🏔️☀️
CS Wind in Pueblo is a prime example of how Colorado is capitalizing on our Inflation Reduction Act to create good-paying jobs, grow our local economies, and reach our clean energy goals! Thanks for stopping by, @POTUS!
Yup.
The problem isn’t “ending subsidies.” It’s: 1) Abrupt termination after major capex is already sunk 2) Cutting eligibility at an arbitrary in-service cliff, blowing up project pipelines 3) Imposing extreme, unworkable FEOC rules that ignore supply chain realities 4) Slapping an…
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This Barack Obama fellow is on to something. I think we should listen to him.
House Republicans – including our colleagues from Colorado – didn’t need to do this. Excessive tax cuts for the wealthy few are NOT worth mortgaging our future economy, sacrificing health care for 17 million Americans, and forfeiting our clean energy dominance. The choice…
This is pure lunacy, and downright cruel. Republicans have voted to kick 17 million Americans off their health care, push hundreds of rural hospitals toward closure, wipe out millions of American clean energy careers, and add trillions to our national debt. And for what? For…
The Republican bill will INCREASE energy costs for families and kill over two million jobs. We introduced an amendment on the floor to stop this. Republicans blocked it.
Pay attention. Democrats in California are embracing energy abundance. Meanwhile, Republicans in DC are pushing energy scarcity and sparking a crisis with their reconciliation bill. I'm with @CAgovernor ☀️
I just enacted the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history. We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades. Let’s get building, California.
Killing clean energy projects is absurd. All it will do is raise energy costs on working families, hurt American energy independence, and strain our grid even further.
Senate Republicans stunned the power industry over the weekend with a proposed new tax on wind and solar projects, part of a broader push to unravel incentives for renewable energy on.wsj.com/3GngJeO
As if this bill could get any worse, Republicans added in provisions to their Big Ugly Bill that taxes YOUR energy and hikes YOUR energy bills.
Pump up jam. Kill this bill
President Obama just told the entire "Fired Up, Ready To Go" story "for the young people here"
Bipartisan support for: this bill is energy malpractice and should be killed.
Wow Tillis on floor just criticized GOP moving wind/solar credits to strict "placed in service" standard. Appeared to criticize Alex Epstein, who influenced the language. Tillis called him "a self-described philosopher" who's "never worked in an operational role" in power sector
Listen to Senator @brianschatz . We are all talking about supporting energy abundance — but this bill does the opposite. It taxes and guts the solar, wind, and storage we're building now, turning our energy abundance into a self-inflicted energy crisis.
Schatz: This bill will kill 300,000 jobs in wind and solar per year. We're going to lose out on $450 billion in capital as thousands of projects go under. And because of that, we're going to generate about 500 gigawatts less energy in the next decade. The 500 gigawatts less…
Tillis after voting against Trump's bill that includes Medicaid cuts: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who really don't give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail. After they get elected, they don't bother to do…
1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think.
This would be incredibly destructive to America!
The US will need ~450 GW of new electricity generation capacity by 2030 to meet rising demand from data centers, reshoring, etc. And the Senate is about to vote on a bill that could wipe out ~500 GW of potential energy generation capacity.
The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.
The new Senate draft raises taxes on all wind and solar projects that haven't begun construction today unless they are placed service by end of 2027 and navigate complex, likely unworkable requirements to prove they don't use a drop of Chinese materials. After that, this bill…
"If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country...equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 keystone XL pipeline projects." @NABTU
I think it is safe to completely ignore, in perpetuity, anyone who ever told you Republicans are the party of energy abundance. Not only does this text end investment incentives, it imposes new taxes on the fastest growing energy sources. This is Everything Bagel conservatism.
The new draft of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' released in the middle of the night last night now contains FOUR tax increases on wind & solar projects — and two facing nuclear, geothermal, and batteries. 1. It ends tax cuts for wind & solar projects (PTC/ITC that have been in…
Republicans are supporting the exact opposite of energy abundance.
According to the clean energy industry, here’s what the Republican tax bill means: - 300,000 fewer jobs per year in wind and solar. - 300 GW less wind and solar built this decade. This is several times more than what we add to the grid in an entire year and we’ll just lose it,…
Stunningly, the new Senate budget bill contains a NEW tax on wind & solar power projects. Avoiding the tax depends on positive demonstration that projects dont violate material assistance rules that is next to impossible to demonstrate. Based on my calcs, could raise taxes on…
At a moment of rapid demand growth and a growing electricity affordability crisis, the Republican's One Big Horrible Bill will RAISE TAXES on the only new sources of electricity we are able to rapidly add to the US grid in four different ways.