U.S. Senate backstabbing whores sneak in last minute pro-wind industry wording in "Big Beautiful Bill"
Last-gasp megabill negotiations eased assault on renewables
As the Senate slogged through a marathon vote this week on the Republican-led megabill, behind the scenes a group of GOP senators worked furiously to ease an assault on renewable energy.
They huddled on the floor, deep in conversation, or were shunted off to leadership offices to hammer out details. At one point, Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) emerged and told reporters he was “deep into the energy part” of the bill.
In the end, their victory was partial: out was a surprise tax on wind and solar energy, in was a slightly more generous timeline phase-out for tax credits.
The Republicans also succeeded in changing language that many felt would make it all but impossible for renewable projects to claim production credits. But they were not able to alter many other rollbacks, including one that immediately terminates a subsidy for home solar.
Curtis, who emerged as one of the key players in the talks, said he implored Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) to salvage some semblance of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
“I’m grateful to Leader Thune and Finance Chair Crapo for including my changes to the energy credits — key for business certainty and for Utah’s energy future,” Curtis, who founded the Conservative Climate Caucus while in the House, said in a statement.
Others leading the effort included Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa — a state that is a leader in wind production — as well as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who won a ransom’s share, including food nutrition changes for her vote. All had previously said they were concerned with earlier versions of the bill and wanted to see changes.
After more than 24 hours of procedural and amendment votes that ended in Vice President JD Vance breaking a 50-50 tie Tuesday on final passage, H.R. 1, is now in the House’s hands.
The outcome there is unclear. While the chamber is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, many conservatives were enraged by the more lenient renewable tax credit language.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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