Heatmap News featured Chris Moyer in an interview about the wind energy's communications strategy and how he believes the industry and companies should be more aggressively countering attacks based on falsehoods.
"Choosing to stay silent is choosing to forfeit. That's letting opponents define the narrative," he said in a memo. "If the industry loses public support, members of Congress and other elected officials will follow. That means projects won't get approved and more companies may go out of business," he added.
These letters were “reassuring to a lot of folks in clean energy and climate communities,” Chris Moyer, the founder of Echo Communications and a former staffer for longtime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, told me.
“For many in the industry, it’s their first up-close experience with the strong tide for partisan politics that prevents party divisions on major votes like this one."
"This is a real wake-up call for the clean energy industry," said Chris Moyer, a former staffer for Sen. Cory Booker and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
he clean energy industry woke up to a “holy shit moment,” watching Republicans who had previously signaled support for the credits agreeing to gut them.
Republicans who opt to vote against President Donald Trump’s top legislative priority risk the wrath of the president and as well as potential primary challenges, said Chris Moyer, a former Democratic Senate staffer.
“This is the first concrete act of this Congress to attempt to dismantle these tax credits, and a lot of folks in the industry were hoping for a better starting point."
“Congress’ first concrete move to dismantle the IRA’s clean energy tax credits makes one thing clear: The two dozen or so House Republicans who have championed these credits still have work to do,"
Republican U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to the head of the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday voicing their support for tax credits boosted in former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, legislation for which no Republicans voted.
