Trump EPA to reduce $ 7 billion solar dollars from the Biden era for all subsidies

The Trump’s environmental protection agency weighs a plan to reduce a green energy program from the Bidenar era of several billion dollars focused on the installation of solar panels on residential properties, Fox News Digital learned.

The EPA plans to send letters to dozens of non -profit organizations and state groups who have received federal subsidies as part of the Biden Administration “Solar for All” to inform them that the subsidies were canceled, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The Solar for All program is an initiative of $ 7 billion launched in 2024 to deliver residential solar energy to “900,000 low -income and disadvantaged households” across the country.

Fox News Digital learned that EPA had not made a final decision on subsidies on Tuesday afternoon.

“With the adoption of the Big Beautiful Bill, the EPA works to ensure that the intention of the congress is fully implemented in accordance with the law,” a spokesperson for the EPA Digital told Fox on Tuesday when he questioned the report to cancel the subsidies.

The One Big Beautiful Bill law includes provisions related to solar energy, in particular by eliminating solar tax credits.

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The administrator of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, led federal discounts of subsidies left from the Biden administration. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

Biden administration announced in April 2024 that 60 non -profit organizations and national state groups would receive 7 billion dollars in grants to install residential solar, which, according to administration managers, would lead to more than $ 350 million in annual savings on electric bills for medium and low -income households. We do not know how many $ 7 billion in funds have already been spent.

The program was funded by the Act to Reduce Inflation and was presented by the EPA administrator of President Joe Biden, Michael Rejea and John Podesta, Biden advisor for international climate policy, as a victory for low income houses that need cheaper electricity bills.

“Solar is the cheapest form of electricity – and one of the best ways to reduce energy costs for American families,” Podesta said in a press release at the time. “The EPA solar announcement of solar for all prices will mean that low -income communities, and not only wealthy communities, will feel the advantages of the cost economy of this investment.”

Former President Joe Biden has repeatedly praised his Green Energy inheritance, which included billions of climate funding under the law on the reduction of inflation. (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press)

Biden has placed green energy initiatives as an absolute priority throughout his presidency. In the decreasing days of his administration, for example, he became the first American president in practice to visit the Amazon forest to boast his green heritage before the departure of his duties, and also declared during a climatic summit in September 2024 that he and the president of the time, Kamala Harris, continued. “

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President Donald Trump criticized the legacy of the green energy of the Biden administration, in particular calling wind and solar energy a “burn” in the United States (Win McNamee / Pool via Reuters; Getty Images)

The law on inflation reduction included a handful of green energy projects, such as $ 350 million in subsidies to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions embodied with building materials and products”, and Democrats have committed to reducing carbon emissions by around 40% by 2030.

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The EPA previously brought an ax of Piche to federal subsidies of the Biden era linked to the environment, in particular the cancellation of $ 20 billion in subsidies under the law on the reduction of inflation – which led to an in progress legal battle. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in March that the $ 20 billion in American taxes were “stationed in an external financial institution in a deliberate effort to limit government surveillance, distributing your money thanks to eight passes, politically connected, unskilled and, in some cases, new NGOs.”

President Donald Trump has signed a handful of decrees and presidential actions reversing energy projects from the Biden era. (Katopodis / Getty Images Tasos)

The EPA consideration to terminate solar subsidies comes after the Trump administration announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has canceled the new offshore wind development on 3.5 million acres nationally at the end of July, and called Wind and solar energy “A burn on our country”, while adding “smart countries do not use it”.