The renewable energy sector and its allies are pinning their hopes on the Senate to soften the House’s spending bill that aggressively scales back Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean-energy tax credits. Backers will likely have at least a month to influence senators on the contours of the bill, before subsequent Senate-House negotiations over the final reconciliation measure.
“Nobody ever won the tennis match in the first set,” Bracewell’s Frank Maisano told Inside EPA, predicting that defenders of IRA credits will have better luck in the Senate.
