This Earth Day, ACORE is Urging the Biden Administration’s Commerce Department to Correct Course so Climate Progress Can Continue

By Alex Hobson
There has actually never been a more essential time to rally in defense of our world than now. The 52nd Earth Day comes simple weeks after a landmark report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change determined that “without deep and immediate emissions decreases throughout all sectors, limiting international warming to 1.5 ° C is beyond reach.” However while the scientists lay out the doomsday situations that will result from inaction, they also explain that we have tools at our disposal today that can limit warming and protect a habitable future for generations to come. Renewable power is an indispensable service to the climate crisis.
Renewables now account for over 21% of U.S. electrical power generation, up from just 9% in 2002. Breaking that down further, this equates to 260 gigawatts of affordable tidy energy released on our grid. In 2021 alone, there sufficed wind and solar capacity contributed to reliably power nearly 10 million homes. This excellent development has resulted in jobs for over 516,000 Americans in all 50 states. But the data is clear, we cant rest on our laurels. If were to effectively meet our clinically driven environment goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate modification, the percentage of emission-free power on the grid requires to speed up even quicker.
Source: EIA
In this urgent hour, the Commerce Department has chosen to bring Americas flourishing renewable development to a shrieking halt with an unwarranted “circumvention questions” that threatens the imposition of retroactive tariffs on crucial solar energy parts. The cloud of uncertainty shrouding the solar market has actually resulted in a remarkable and immediate decrease in clean energy release here in the United States, with ravaging layoffs sure to follow. How are companies anticipated to purchase solar jobs when the expenses are unknowable and could more than double without notification?
With a stroke of the pen, the Commerce Department has singlehandedly weakened years of development toward its own administrations economic and climate goals. On this Earth Day, were calling on the Biden administration to correct course. Rather than immobilizing the American solar sector, undermining among the countrys fastest-growing sources of new jobs, the administration needs to concentrate on enacting policies that enhance our domestic supply chain, such as the clean energy tax plan currently being negotiated that offers sophisticated manufacturing tax credits and long-term tax incentives for solar power.
This is our last finest possibility to resolve the environment crisis, and to do so effectively and successfully, we require this investigation to end so the eco-friendly industry can get back to doing what it does finest– powering Americas clean energy future.

If were to successfully meet our scientifically driven climate goals and avert the worst effects of climate change, the portion of emission-free power on the grid requires to accelerate even much faster.
In this urgent hour, the Commerce Department has decided to bring Americas booming renewable growth to a screeching halt with a baseless “circumvention query” that threatens the imposition of retroactive tariffs on key solar energy parts. Rather than disabling the American solar sector, weakening one of the countrys fastest-growing sources of new jobs, the administration ought to focus on enacting policies that reinforce our domestic supply chain, such as the tidy energy tax bundle presently being worked out that supplies sophisticated production tax credits and long-lasting tax incentives for solar power.