YouTube video by House Natural Resources Committee Democrats

The measure enables broad tax cuts that disproportionately favor wealthy households while forcing its costs on the most economically vulnerable Americans.

In Arizona, copper mining threatens a Western Apache sacred site. Securing domestic energy could cost Native American communities.

The 45Q tax credit expansion for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, dramatically increases the expected cost to taxpayers without adequate oversight or transparency to ensure fiscal integrity or program efficacy. Independent analyses suggest tax subsidies could average $46 billion per year—more than 140 times the original official projections. Total costs could reach as high as $835 billion by 2042; and were industry-proposed expansions implemented, the taxpayer cost could surge above $2 trillion. With lax oversight, little transparency, and most credits funding enhanced oil recovery rather than true carbon reduction, the risks to taxpayers are enormous. This report examines the 45Q program’s potential fiscal impacts and the urgent need for reform of this flawed federal subsidy.

LIHEAP is among the latest victims of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal government.

Construction crews began dismantling the large painting of the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ just one block from the White House on Monday. Washington, D.C

Oh, he’d never self-identify as an environmentalist. But not even climate activists have had the courage to propose a 10% tax on energy.

Construction of a controversial gas-fueled power plant in a Newark neighborhood already plagued by air pollution is just one permit away from finalization.