"As the US Senate revises US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “big, beautiful bill,” they should remove the cuts to clean-energy tax credits. These incentives – which have already mobilized billions of dollars in private investment – are essential to restore America’s manufacturing strength and ensure its energy security," write DUSP's Elisabeth Reynolds, Eran Ben-Joseph, and MIT graduate student Vir Chachra.
In their Project Syndicate piece, Reynolds, Ben-Joseph, and Chachra outline both the short and long-term benefits of investments in manufacturing plants producing clean technologies. They also highlight how retaining these investments could advance "national-security and economic-security goals, while also gaining some degree of bipartisan support."
Read their full analysis and urging for Congress to restore America’s manufacturing strength and ensure its energy security.