In 2025, the new Congress and incoming Trump administration should reassess the sprawling 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which handed out vast subsidies for green energy. One reason to reassess is that the cost of the law has ballooned from $390 billion over 10 years to more than $1 trillion. The budget cost of green energy is not the only cost. In the effort to reduce CO2, the IRA subsidies for wind power, solar power, batteries, and electric vehicles are creating negative side effects, including harm to the environment. One concern is the vast land area the Biden administration plans to cover with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. In August, the administration proposed a Western Solar Plan, which "would make over 31 million acres of public lands across 11 Western states available for potential solar development."
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- In 2025 the new Congress and incoming Trump administration should 1
- The budget cost of green energy is not the only cost. In the effort to 1
- One concern is the vast land area the Biden administration plans to cover 1
- Many Americans have put PV panels on their homes and businesses 1
- Americans know that the government is planning to smother a huge area of 1
- Of the 31 million acres of Bureau of Land Management BLM lands the 1
- 538000 football fields. As I understand it those acres will be bulldozed to 1
- Huge PV installations could get in the way of animal migrations. One PV 2
- The Biden PV plan is supposed to mitigate damage to wildlife but it seems 2
- Covering huge swaths of open lands with PV structures also undercuts the 2
- Some Western leaders are pointing out that BLM lands are supposed to be 2
- Solar power sounds green and in many ways it is. But there is also a 2
- What is the best solution for solar power in the West That should be for 2
- Westerners to decide. Most federal lands should be transferred to the 2
- I examine reforms to BLM lands here . Some articles providing a balance of 2
