Issue: Solar

In this series of periodic episodes in which hosts reluctantly discuss current events, Volts talks with Adrian Deveny, a former Senate aide who was in the trenches for the IRA’s creation, about the House GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

This Data for Progress poll shows that a strong, bipartisan majority of voters—across party lines—oppose repealing the Inflation Reduction Act. Most Americans support its clean energy and health care investments, with particularly high approval for policies like domestic clean energy manufacturing, tax credits for renewables and EVs, and pollution reduction in vulnerable communities. It’s a useful snapshot of broad public backing for climate and economic provisions in the IRA.

A social media toolkit drawing attention to clean energy tax credits and savings that are at risk of being cut by Congress this year.

This Article describes and analyzes the growing local opposition to rural solar energy and ultimately argues for a wave of new state legislation designed to strengthen rural landowners’ rights to develop utility-scale solar projects on their land.