To prevent another successful attack on the the industry like the One Big Beautiful Bill—and to build the case for swift policy action in the next Congress and administration—clean energy can take action now to build political power.
With the GOP’s megabill now law—gutting key clean energy provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act—we turned to Pete Maysmith, newly named president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), to talk about his first few months on the job, and how LCV is preparing for the midterms.
“Framing the issue around utility rates makes the consequences of the tax bill’s energy provisions real and immediate," said Moyer. “It ties rising utility bills directly to the votes of vulnerable Republicans and gives voters a clear picture of who’s to blame every time they open their bill between now and November 2026.”
Chris Moyer, founder and president of Echo Communications Advisors, was quoted in E&E News in a story on efforts to hold members of Congress accountable for voting to dismantle IRA tax credits.
Chris Moyer, founder and president of Echo Communications Advisors, was interviewed by Fabien Cros on the Pricing for the Planet podcast.
“The larger issue is the extreme careening of federal policy in the United States,” said Chris Moyer, the founder of Echo Communications and a former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill who now advises clean energy companies. “There’s no consideration of the business cycle. It’s all about the political cycle.”
We’re sharing a candid conversation with the leader of a community-scale solar and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) developer/owner operator. "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) has already devastated our business."
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.
Edwin Luevanos is a climate entrepreneur focused on accelerating clean energy adoption in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the U.S.
