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Will Big Beautiful Bill cause ‘annihilation’ of Georgia’s clean energy industry?
Monday, July 14, 2025
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on massive tax and spending bill that would increase taxes on clean energy factories and projects, businesses canceled another $1.4 billion in new factories and clean energy projects in May, according to E2’s latest monthly analysis of clean energy projects tracked by E2 and Clean Economy Tracker.
The latest cancellations – including battery, electric vehicle and solar panel factories in West Virginia, New York, Alabama, Arizona and Washington – mean $15.5 billion in new factories and electricity projects have been cancelled since January 1. The cancelled projects were expected to create nearly 12,000 new jobs.
Republican congressional districts are losing the most. More than $9 billion in investments and almost10,000 jobs have been cancelled, delayed or closed in Republican districts so far in 2025.
read the full reportPropelled by southern states, clean energy and clean vehicle companies added nearly 150,000 jobs in the first full year of the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), boosting the total number of clean energy workers in United States to nearly 3.5 million, according to E2's 9th annual Clean Jobs America report.
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Press Coverage
Monday, July 14, 2025
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