As one of their last acts before leaving town for the holidays, House Republicans just voted to raise your energy bills. Talk about adding insult to injury!
They just passed a bill misleadingly called the “Power Plant Reliability Act.” It has nothing to do with reliability and everything to do with protecting failing coal plants and padding the pockets of fossil fuel executives.
Here is the simple truth: The Trump Administration is using a little known emergency authority to force aging coal plants to stay online, even when their owners want to shut them down because they’re too costly to run. These plants are outdated, expensive, and unnecessary.
Under current law, Trump can only force them to stay online for 90 days. House Republicans just voted to expand it to five years. That’s 1,825 days!
That means communities and states would have no say, and ratepayers would be forced to cover the cost. Estimates say if this became law, it could add $6 billion every year to our energy bills — money that goes straight to the pockets of fossil fuel executives while families and small businesses pay more.
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