Ads urge Senator Young to safeguard clean energy tax credits
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Ads from various groups are targeting U.S. senators, including Todd Young of Indiana, advocating for federal clean energy tax credits. The tax credits, they say, lower electric bills, create jobs, and keep U.S. manufacturing globally competitive. The campaigns highlight the benefits seen in states like West Virginia and Indiana, where clean energy tax credits have spurred job creation and significant investments in the sector.
Advocates Target Senators with Ads Supporting Clean Energy Tax Credits
Ads are being used to directly reach out to U.S. Senators including Indiana Senator Todd Young, advocating for federal clean energy tax credits. These credits are instrumental in funding diverse projects ranging from solar and wind to nuclear and carbon storage.
With ads from at least three different groups, bipartisan support for clean energy is evident. All ads emphasize the economic benefits of these tax credits, highlighting their role in reducing electricity bills, boosting job creation, and enhancing the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing.
The Built for America campaign focuses more on establishing America’s leadership in manufacturing and energy rather than mitigating climate change.
“Indiana is thriving. We’re constructing, recruiting, and achieving victories,” states the TV ad from Built for America.
Mitch Carmichael, Executive Director of Built for America, and former West Virginia Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Economic Development, credited clean energy tax credits for generating over a thousand manufacturing jobs in West Virginia. These include a battery plant and a solar-powered microgrid.
Clean energy entrepreneur and Yale climate solutions instructor, Steph Speirs, is a key part of the Protect Our Jobs ad campaign. She asserts that red states like Indiana have gained the most from clean energy projects triggered by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speirs points out the irony of states leading the push to remove these credits despite benefiting from them. She urges senators to consider their own constituents’ best interests by retaining the credits.
The trade group Advanced Energy United has also launched an ad campaign. They estimate that tax credits will generate over $170 billion in private sector and manufacturing investments in Indiana over the next ten years.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate’s finance committee, will play a significant part in examining the reconciliation bill.
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