WHAT WE MUST DO NOW:
1) Contact your senators. Ask them to oppose the following provisions of the BBB: Subtitle C of the bill, titled “Make America Win Again,” which proposes to sunset, repeal, or restrict nearly every major clean energy tax credit under the IRA, including credits for clean vehicle purchases (Section 25E), commercial clean vehicles (Section 45W), alternative refueling infrastructure (Section 30C), residential energy efficiency improvements (Sections 25C and 25D), new energy efficient homes (Section 45L), and advanced manufacturing (Section 45X). For U.S. manufacturing, the most damaging proposals are those that target the clean electricity production and investment credits under Sections 45Y and 48E, and the advanced manufacturing production credit under Section 45X. Our senators must know that we care about the economic impact of this repeal in our states and our nation.
2) Contact your representatives in the House. If they voted against the BBB, thank them. Any change to the text in the Senate will send the bill back to the House for reconsideration and vote. If they are one of the 21 members of the House Republican Conference who wrote to the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on March 9 opposing the proposed changes to renewable energy tax credits but ultimately voted for the BBB, then tell them to stick to their values and insights they expressed in March and vote against the new bill.
3) Crimson Challenge. Spread the word and accelerate our efforts by forwarding this ClassACTion Alert to five or more people and/or post it on your social media platforms.
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OTHER RESOURCES & OPINIONS:
Bill McKibben (fellow alumnus), “A truly dark day in DC,” 22 May 2025: “If you add it up, this is all an effort to keep America precisely where it is now. It’s the Make America Immobile Act."
Paul Krugman (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics), “We are no longer a serious country,” June 3, 2025: “Then there’s the budget bill making its way through Congress. It’s a terrible thing, imposing savage cuts on social programs (and decimating U.S. science) while giving such big tax cuts to the wealthy that it will explode the deficit.”
Evergreen Action, “Rapid Analysis: House GOP’s Clean Energy Repeal and What it Means for the Affordability Crisis:” “This extreme bill not only makes devastating cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, but also guts clean energy, climate, and environmental justice programs that are reducing costs, creating jobs, and improving public health across the country.”
Princeton ZERO Lab Report, “A Fork In The Road: Impacts of Federal Policy Repeal On The U.S. Energy Transition,” May 22, 2025, on BBB’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions, costs of energy in the U.S., overall and per household through 2035, and in killing off emerging alternative energy sectors.
This resource, courtesy of Climate Reality, profiles key senators in the 13 "swing states" and the impact of the IRA incentives by specific projects. Check this out if you live in one of those states.
Other resources tracking clean energy projects and impacts of funding freezes state by state:
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The ClassACT HR73 Environment & Climate Change Working Group plans to release announcements about critical issues and opportunities for anyone concerned to support scientific integrity and environmental protection. We hope to organize an open meeting soon to discuss our role in addressing the environment, biodiversity loss, and climate change. If you are a member of HR73 and want to join our efforts, please email John Kress at KRESSJ@si.edu.
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