Trump Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country
futurism.com
The EPA under Donald Trump is refusing to dish out $7 billion to provide cheap, green energy to low-income Americans.
  • frunch@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 hours ago

    This is like a reverse-Mamdani. All the pieces are in place to do the right thing by his constituents, but he instead tries his damndest to eliminate it

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      13·
      6 hours ago

      Oil companies, and their trade groups are neck deep in all of this. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch, Total, Eni, I forget the rest. They’ve trade groups that hire influence operations all over social media, lobbyists, they commission studies to work backwards from their desired goal, and everything else.

      I forget the windfall they’ve had from the higher oil prices, but it’s huge. Plus refiners increased their margins for distillates, like diesal and gasoline, from 15 percent to 100 percent per a reuters article a month back I can’t find now but reuters has referenced in other successive articles.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOP
    482·
    12 hours ago

    Apparently lowering energy bills is only a priority until the solution involves solar panels. Congress approves the funding, communities stand to benefit, a court orders its release, and the EPA still won’t pay. At this point, the sunshine isn’t the thing being blocked: it’s basic accountability.