Senate Bill Will Raise Household Energy Prices, Take Away Jobs
Statement from EDF Vice President for Political and Government Affairs Joanna Slaney
(Washington, D.C. – July 1, 2025) – “Senate Republicans voted to pass a bill that will raise household utility bills, take away job opportunities and threaten people’s health with more pollution. It's an irresponsible plan hatched at Mar-a-Lago banquet tables that will make life harder for working Americans focused on their kitchen tables.
“By making it much, much harder to build new clean energy projects, the bill is effectively cutting off supply of cheap energy right when the U.S. needs it the most. It’s families and small businesses who will pay the price.
“The largest polluting oil and gas companies, meanwhile, would receive a 10-year reprieve from paying a fee on wasteful methane pollution, which would cause irreversible harm to our climate and public health. It’s clear that this deeply unpopular bill favors burning more fossil fuels while ignoring the damage it will do to people’s lives. That’s a strategy from the 1950s. We have different problems now – and better solutions.”
- Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs, Environmental Defense Fund
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