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Joe Manchin Meant to Make Electric Car Tax Credits Hard to Get
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"Attempts by the likes of Rivian and Hyundai to make incentives more accessible leads the West Virginia Democrat to repeat himself.
West Virginia’s Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.
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US Senator Joe Manchin hasn’t minced words about where he stands on tax credits for electric vehicles. Throwing thousands of dollars at consumers was “ludicrous,” he said, when car buyers already were on waiting lists to purchase them, and not enough were being manufactured in America."
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Exclusive: White House, Energy Dept. to announce ‘innovation agenda’
The White House and the Energy Department on Wednesday will announce new commitments as part of a “rapid innovation agenda” aimed at electrifying homes, businesses and transportation, according to details shared exclusively with The Climate 202.
The announcements, to be made during the White House Electrification Summit, are part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to combat climate change and lower energy costs for American households. They include:
- Thirty-five utilities will commit to sharing real-time power outage data with the Outage Data Initiative Nationwide. The move to make the data public is meant to help existing emergency response efforts and identify areas that need investment to improve reliability. With the new commitments, ODIN will now include 100 utilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, covering more than 43 million customers.
- Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will announce a funding opportunity aimed at helping industrial facilities increase the adoption of on-site green technologies, such as heat pumps and battery storage.
- Energy’s Building Technologies Office will unveil the Home Electrification Prize, which will fund innovative solutions to retrofit homes in communities that have been historically overburdened by pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
- That office will also announce a funding opportunity that will provide up to $45 million for the development and demonstration of technologies that can significantly advance building decarbonization.
“We want to get the word out about the tremendous benefits of electrification,” Sally Benson, deputy director for energy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told The Climate 202, adding that the new initiatives are part of a larger plan to accelerate implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Granholm, senior White House adviser John Podesta, OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar and White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi are expected to deliver remarks at the summit, along with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.).
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Schumer tees up vote on Manchin’s permitting amendment to NDAA
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said the Senate will vote on the controversial bill from Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) that would speed up the approval process for new energy projects as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, Rachel Frazin reports for the Hill.
However, it appears unlikely that Manchin’s amendment will garner the 60 votes needed for approval because it faces steep opposition from Senate Republicans, even though conservatives have long called for streamlining the permitting process for energy infrastructure.
Lawmakers have twice shot down Manchin’s permitting bill since September, most recently when the House decided not to include the legislation in the defense bill because of concerns from liberal Democrats.
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