Hurricane season is here. It's a reminder that climate and clean energy deserve Republican support
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The Inflation Reduction Act was passed nine months ago and now 200 clean energy projects have been announced. Republicans should support them. Climate is also an economic issue.
Bob Keefe is executive director of the nonpartisan business group E2 and author of the book "Climatenomics: Washington, Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet."
If there’s a silver lining in all of this, it’s that once something becomes a pocketbook issue, lawmakers start to act. The clean energy investments passed by the last Congress will help reduce carbon emissions that are turbocharging extreme weather and sucking dollars out of taxpayers’ pockets with every disaster
But even before we start seeing those payoffs, these same policies are driving private-industry investments at levels not seen in generations – if ever.