Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

By Nathaniel Eisen, Inside Climate News

Last August, when reports emerged that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) planned to cancel $7 billion in grants for solar panels for low-income households, including an estimated 20,000 households in Maine, Sen. Susan Collins seemed to defend the move. 

“It is no surprise, now that control of the White House has changed, that the new administration would consider terminating this IRA program,” she was quoted as saying, referring to the Biden administration’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. 

While Collins did call the termination “abrupt” and “unfortunate,” her primary concern seemed to be rehashing the IRA’s partisan passage. “Not one Republican voted for the Inflation Reduction Act that included this grant program,” Collins said, highlighting her own opposition to the 2022 law many have called the most significant piece of climate legislation in United States history. READ MORE