Another Aspect of the Republican Murder Bill

I got a bit confused on the date yesterday and posted my second half of BlueSky round-up for June a day early. C'est la vie. 

As I write this, Senate Republicans continue figuring out how to kill as many of us as possible with their terrible budget reconciliation bill. Today I thought I would focus on the renewable energy portion of the bill, which was mentioned in the round-up yesterday, but is — of course — overshadowed by the Medicaid cuts, deficit increases, and ballooning of the ICE budget.

Here are some posts about it, mostly from today:

How low can they go? 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
Mark Z. Jacobson

The bill the Senate is voting on right now would reduce US power generation through 2035 by 300GW, raise wholesale and retail power prices, increase household energy costs, reduce national GDP, and kill hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Dave Roberts @volts.wtf

83% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, think the US should be a world leader in developing clean energy — it’s too bad the GOP bill intentionally rolls back progress on that front:


Steve Rattner

Trump's massive bill reversing Biden's signature climate law will bring a quick end to one of the most meaningful achievements in human history — the existence of cheap solar power.
Eric Holthaus

Just got done interviewing a northern Arizona farmer and rancher who was very excited about field testing solar arrays that are mobile and high enough to accommodate cattle grazing. This agenda is so far from what actual living people want and need.
Faith Kearns, Ph.D.

This bill is a danger to the US. It locks in death+illness to up to 100,000 Americans every year due to fossil-and bioenergy-fuel air pollution that wind+solar help eliminate. Ensures more land devastation due to 50,000 new oil and gas wells drilled every year in North America. The bill ensures the poisoning of soil and groundwater due to fossil fuels, the continuation of gas blowouts and fires, the high price and price volatility of fossil-fuel energy, the lower job creation of fossil-fuel energy versus wind and solar energy, and the continued occupation and growth of 1.3% of all U.S. land area by the fossil-fuel industry. There is nothing beneficial about the bill. Only guaranteed misery.
Mark Z. Jacobson

I just saw a post saying Iowa Republican senators Grassley and Ernst are going to move an amendment to remove the extra tax on renewables... we'll see. That's better than nothing, but it's like taking credit for taking a knife out of someone's back, as Malcolm X said. And we'll see if it even happens.