So you wanna work on implementation…

The IRA is passed (hooray), and now it’s time to implement it. Implementation! Its the talk of the town.

But, what does that mean, to work on implementation, as a policy advocate..? (or as a concerned citizen)

A🧵— hopefully useful Needless to say, this is a much different type of work than lobbying Congress to pass a bill, or advocating that a federal agency promulgate a regulation or reject a pipeline permit. But, it’s really important work. So I’m glad you’re here.

Its #ClimateWeekNYC, so its climate🧵week

Yesterday I wrote one⬇️on how the Biden admin can work w/ state & local govts to go further, faster on climate (also lol I called it the Investment Reduction Act)

Today: 3⃣ exciting "force multipliers" in the IRA

https://twitter.com/SamTRicketts/status/1571817909210517514

Ok so first of all, there are a lot of really great climate investments in the IRA. There's also some bad stuff. But it is really hard to choose the most exciting provisions, imo. These transformational $$ will help build a just and thriving clean energy economy.

Now that Congress has passed the transformational Investment Reduction Act, the next chapter in US climate policy will revolve around 3 key areas: IRA implementation (IIJA, too), President Biden's use of executive action, and state action.

Lets talk about how these relate.🧵 More specifically, lets talk about how the first 2 relate to the 3rd—how the Biden Administration can use implementation+exec action to support climate progress at the state (and local and tribal) level.

First, a quick reminder that states are the OG climate leaders in the US...

The Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision on the West Virginia v EPA case on Monday morning.

This case is bonkers–SCOTUS is ruling on a legal challenge against a Clean Air Act regulation that *does not exist.*

A🧵of sorts. Both historical and personal. Bear with.

https://twitter.com/SamTRicketts/status/1541231704165306368

So, the Clean Air Act has been around for over 50 years. Congress passed it in 1970. Nixon signed it. Thus began decades of bipartisan support for federal regulation of air pollution. George HW Bush signed a major reauthorization in 1990. This was baseball and apple pie stuff.

The bottom line now is that Manchin's opposition to the CEPP cannot take down with it $150 billion in investments in our clean energy future. Those investments are too important, especially for driving the power sector transformation that we need and to which Biden has committed. There are so many critical climate investments in the Build Back Better Act —from clean energy tax credits, a Clean Energy Accelerator, EJ Block Grants, building electrification rebates, and more. It has hurt to lose CEPP, but there's so much more that we must win. Onward.

🚨5 Things to Know About the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP)🔌⚡️

1. Its going to grow the workforce by 8 million jobs and create $1 trillion in economic growth over the coming decade, according to new independent economic analysis.
evergreenaction.com/policy-hub/The… 2. CEPP will drive an affordable, cost-effective clean energy transition–using federal investments to drive the transition and ensuring costs are not borne by customers. Utilities must use 100% of their grant money for customer benefit. energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrat…

This 10yo article really hurts to read.

At the outset of the 2010s I was a 24yo congressional staffer watching hope and hard work fade to black as the US Senate killed the House’s climate bill - our nation’s first-ever real shot at comprehensive climate legislation. /1

https://twitter.com/jeffgoodell/status/1211754009750622211

Then the GOP took the House- and gobs of govs’ seats- in 2010, in the most cynical, utterly amoral and undeserved electoral victory. They gerrymandered themselves a permanent majority, and any hope for federal climate policy was dead for a decade. /2