More than two-thirds of Democrats signed onto a letter Wednesday accusing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin of “actively hamstringing America’s homegrown clean energy industry” under new policies implemented by the Trump administration, reports the Hill.
“While countries around the world are clamoring for cleaner, cheaper, and more innovative technologies, you are actively hamstringing America’s homegrown clean energy industry, which has already injected $422 billion and 400,000 jobs into our economy in just the past two and a half years,” the bicameral group of legislators wrote.
“This is anything but unleashing American energy. At the same time, instead of lowering costs for American families, your actions will result in the opposite. Americans’ medical expenses will increase because your Polluters First agenda will allow particulate matter and other hazardous air pollution to go unchecked,” they added.
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