"Under new leader Jason Grumet, a longtime advocate of bipartisanship, the American Clean Power Association presses for permitting and hydrogen solutions that appeal to the group's fossil fuel members."
"On two of the most consequential decisions facing Congress and the Biden administration on energy and climate change, the nation’s newest and largest clean power industry group has decisively aligned itself with companies that want to preserve markets for natural gas.
To the dismay of some in the clean energy community, the American Clean Power Association, or ACP, has praised House Republicans’ fossil-fuel friendly treatment of permitting reform, or the fast-tracking of big energy infrastructure projects crucial to both oil and gas, and wind and solar, companies. The benefits for clean energy will depend on the details of that policy, now being hammered out in the Democratic-led Senate after House Republicans passed their sprawling energy package as their first piece of legislation in this Congress.
The ACP’s new CEO—longtime bipartisanship advocate Jason Grumet—has blasted progressives for their opposition, which he has termed “solution denial.” He portrays them as naive idealists, who fail to recognize that clean energy projects won’t move forward without a compromise that allows fossil fuel infrastructure to advance as well, which he calls the only energy policy that is politically viable in a closely divided Congress."
Marianne Lavelle reports for Inside Climate News April 19, 2023.
