US President Donald Trump’s administration decided on Thursday on the abolition of a program that was supposed to supply electricity from solar panels to low -income and disadvantaged communities in the United States. Informed AFP, writes TASR.
The Solar For All grant program, which had $ 7 billion, was established under the Act on Reduction of Inflation of 2022. The aim of this initiative was to help more than 900,000 households reduce their electricity accounts by hundreds of dollars a year. In the states led by Democrats and Republicans, 60 recipients of this aid have already been selected: state agencies and non -profit organizations.
In a video published on the X -Network Administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin said that In July, the “Great Beautiful Law” adopted “abolished the funding of the greenhouse gas emission fundunder which the Solar for ALL program worked.
The supporters of the environmental protection was angry with the decision of the Trump administration. “President Trump promised to reduce energy accounts in half, but his administration is instead trying to raise the prices of cooling or households,” said Adam Kent from the Natural Sources Council.
Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders He accused Trump of protecting the interests of fossil fuel producers. “Donald Trump wants to cancel this program illegally to protect the obscene profits of his friends in the oil and gas industries,” He said Sanders in a statement and promised to “fight to preserve this extremely important program”.
AFP recalled that Trump’s administration has already taken several steps to weaken environmental policy since its accession to office in January this year And they slow the transition to clean energy sources.
In cooperation with Congress, it canceled the tax relief on wind and solar energy, making it difficult to finance new renewable projects. At the same time, it tightened restrictions on the contraction of these projects with the participation of the federal government and canceled several areas off the coast that were reserved for wind energy at sea.
In addition, administration It proposed to terminate several regulatory measures regarding the emissions of greenhouse gases that apply to power plants and motor vehicles. In practice, this would be the release of air pollution limits and an increase in emissions that contribute to climate change.
The government also published a report showing that climate change could also have positive effects – In violation of a broad scientific consensus that points to the serious global risks of warming the planet.
