Talking Points: The Environment
If you care about your children’s and grandchildren’s futures you must care about the quality of our air and our water and the catastrophic effects of climate change.
It has been revealed that Donald Trump asked the oil industry for a one billion dollar contribution for a promise to overturn all of President Biden’s green energy legislation.
The contrasts between Trump and President Biden couldn’t be starker.
The oil industry hailed Donald Trump as a hero and considered his administration a “once-in-a-lifetime” gift. In Trump’s first term he was openly hostile to environment protections, whether it was:
Withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Accords
Installing oil, mining and logging industry lobbyists into cabinet positions that are supposed to protect our environment
Refusing to release studies that clearly showed the dangers of PFOs that affect us right here in Wisconsin
Cutting the EPA budget
Rolling back Obama’s emissions standards for car
Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is by far the most aggressive legislation in history to take on climate change, which has also created tens of thousands of jobs in the green energy industry and the bipartisan Infrastructure Law is also dedicating funds toward climate change.
In March of 2024 the Department of Energy announced $6 billion in investment for industries to adapt new technologies and $20 billion for commercial scale decarbonization solutions, cutting emissions by nearly 80 percent on average. These
By 2030 it is estimated that the act will bring $4 billion dollars of investment to the Wisconsin economy alone
The bill aims to cut emissions in half in five years and reach net zero by 2050
It also creates financial incentives for citizens to run their homes on clean energy and for the adoption of electric vehicles.
Thousands of companies are already using these incentives to develop green energy around the country via wind and solar power and reduce pollution that threatens our kids and grandkids
All of this will lower the energy costs for families as well as lower prescription drug costs, which is the inflation-reduction part of this legislation.
Not one Republican voted for this legislation.
With its natural resources and surrounding Great Lakes and with tourism a big industry in our state, Wisconsin is affected economically by neglect of our environment.