Clean Energy Legislative Update

by | Mar 16, 2021 | Featured, Instagram, News

Capitol Reflections by Ben Campney

We continue to partner with our fellow Iowa environmental organizations to both support bi-partisan bills that advance clean energy and oppose bills that attempt to stop clean energy innovation.

You can take actions to help on both accounts. We’re trying to advance HF 221 to support the Solar Investment Tax Credit and to stop HF 555 and SF 455 that would prevent energy innovation by protecting methane gas.

If you haven’t already done so, please ask your member of the Iowa House to support HF 221 and the Solar Investment Tax Credit. You can do that through our action alert! We’ve written an email (& tweet) that you can personalize to make it quick and easy.

This bi-partisan bill extends the tax credit until 2031, increases funding, and clears the wait list. The bill provides greater certainty that Iowans will be able to use the tax credit to invest in solar in their homes, on their farms, at their businesses, and in their communities at houses of worship and schools.

To help stop HF 555 and SF 455, we invite you to use the advocacy tools from the Iowa Environmental Council to reach both your Iowa House and Senate members. The gas industry is trying to save itself at the expense of Iowans. This legislation would prop up the methane and propane gas industries by creating special protections for out-of-state gas imports. These bills restrict local governments from prioritizing the use of low-cost, abundant, Iowa-produced clean energy in buildings, costing Iowa customers more and undermining local control. Recent cold snaps have shown that gas is unreliable and expensive for our state. Your voice is needed now to keep Iowa’s energy resources clean, local, and affordable. 

Environmental justice requires an intersectional approach to advancing a hopeful, abundant future. In addition to individual actions and efforts by organizations like businesses and churches, public policy is a vital tool to help us shape our state’s energy landscape to provide clean power, a healthy environment, and good jobs. 

Engaged advocacy requires both promoting good policy and stopping bad policy. Thank you for your willingness to join us in doing both.

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