Looks like he's written off the Green vote
Update: Acadia Center, Climate Action RI, Clean Water Action & Green Energy Consumers Alliance respond:
“Governor McKee continues to pin the blame of escalating energy prices on the very tools that serve to protect Rhode Island ratepayers from volatile supply costs and rising delivery costs,” said Emily Koo, Rhode Island Program Director for Acadia Center. “It is a glaring omission to report the costs of clean energy while ignoring all of the cost savings, one of the primary reasons for undertaking the energy transition in the first place. I would be surprised if the local businesses featured at tomorrow/today’s event have not themselves leveraged energy efficiency and solar to lower their energy usage and stabilize their energy supply costs – these are best practices, and they benefit all ratepayers.”
Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee is
responding to the climate denialism and dangerous energy policies of the Trump
Administration not by pushing back against fossil fuels and
championing renewable energy, but by embracing the logic coming out of D.C. and
advancing policies that undermine Rhode Island’s historic 2021 Act on Climate legislation.
Rhode Islanders received a preview of Governor McKee’s new
direction (which is not, truthfully, all that new) in his FY2027 Budget
proposal. As Acadia Center [pointed
out in a
recent press release:
“At a moment when federal clean energy support is eroding, Rhode Island should be doubling down on the tools still firmly within the state’s control. Instead, Governor McKee’s FY 2027 budget sadly mirrors the short-sighted policies of the Trump Administration, cutting renewables and energy efficiency and delivering what would be a major blow to Rhode Island’s clean energy economy.”
Read Acadia Center’s analysis here: Acadia
Center responds to severe clean energy rollbacks in Governor McKee’s proposed
FY2027 budget








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