Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in “greenhouse gas reduction” money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention.
The $7 billion Solar for All program – part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — is meant to “enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy,” according to the EPA’s website.
The $27 billion fund was created by Congress in 2022 as part of a massive tax and spending measure called the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Some $20 billion of it was moved to Citibank late in the Biden administration and is now the focus of a high-profile legal battle by the Trump administraton to get it back. On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked its effort.
Less publicized is the program’s remaining $7 billion, which the new administration froze on Jan. 20 through an executive order that instructed federal agencies to halt compliance with the IRA while the government explores whether its provisions are at odds with efforts to maximize fossil fuel development. Some states and nonprofits are now suing the Trump administration over the pause.
This is part of the reason MD has such high electric bills! why is delmarva power allowed to operate as a monopoly? they have no competition. We aren’t “allowed” to switch to choptank electric coop. they are the only other game in town.
Solar is a scam that only exists because the radical left controlled it’s narrative…touting climate change. The truth is solar creates the most unrecyclable pollution the world has ever seen while increasing energy costs, eliminating wildlife habitat, and leaving behind brownfields that will not sustain agriculture for decades beyond its abandonment.