House GOP wants to cut renewables funding by $1B

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, (R-KY), at right. / J. Scott Applewhite:AP
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, (R-KY), at right. / J. Scott Applewhite:AP

By Jeff Spross | Climate Progress

This past Tuesday, President Obama unveiled his second-term plan for cutting carbon emissions, and delivered a bracing call for the American economy to advance into a clean energy future. This past Wednesday, House Republicans responded by moving a bill out of the Appropriations Committee that would cut investments in renewables by nearly a billion dollars.

The legislation in question is the Energy and Water appropriations bill, which is the fifth of twelve spending bills the House must pass to establish the discretionary budget for 2014. Sequestration — the across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect earlier this year — set a top-line level of $967 billion for that spending. But Republicans are attempting to ease the cuts to the military by slicing even deeper into other programs. That led to a party-line vote in the committee to cut renewable investments in the bill by $911 million from their level in 2013.

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