STATEMENT: CE4A’s Andrew Reagan on President Biden Solar Tariff Decision, Clean Energy Manufacturing Actions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, June 6, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, President Biden made several announcements aimed at preserving American solar jobs and boosting domestic solar and clean energy manufacturing to counter the impact of a Department of Commerce inquiry into solar panel components imported from Southeast Asia.
In response, CE4A’s Executive Director Andrew Reagan released the following statement:
“President Biden has taken decisive action to reinstate business certainty that will preserve jobs for America’s solar workers and build manufacturing for the clean energy jobs of the future. By halting new solar tariffs for 24 months and deploying the Defense Production Act to jump start domestic clean energy manufacturing, he is leaning into the clean energy future he promised. His steps today prove how essential this industry and its workers are to the energy sector and the overall economy. Clean energy must keep growing, must keep cutting costs for families and pollution for communities, must keep creating jobs, must keep defending America’s energy security, must keep moving towards the president’s commitment to achieving a carbon-free economy. And now, thanks to today’s actions, we can.
“We’d like to thank the many members of Congress and governors from around the country who stood up for clean energy workers by intervening to push the Biden administration to end the Department of Commerce’s inquiry. ”
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Clean Energy for America: CE4A amplifies the voice of the clean energy workforce in advocating for policies and leaders to advance just, equitable and rapid decarbonization. CE4A is a 501(c)4 organization.
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