Shaheen Joins Colleagues in Calling Out Trump Administration Policies Causing Rising Energy Costs in New England

The Senators wrote, in part: "On Tuesday, you wrote an opinion piece in the Boston Globe about your thoughts on New England's energy grid, attempting to diagnose the issue of rising energy prices in the region. Costs are too high and are only getting higher, but unfortunately, your op-ed failed to mention the immediate source of these rising prices: the actions of your Administration and Republicans in Congress. While energy demand surges, your policies are strangling America's cheapest and quickest-to-deploy sources of energy-solar and wind-by hiking costs, creating insurmountable permitting hurdles, and injecting uncertainty into the market. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to kill programs meant to lower energy bills. The end result is fewer affordable megawatts on the grid, higher electricity costs, and less support for struggling American families. If you want to solve the problem of energy costs in New England, we would direct you and your colleagues to immediately address these straightforward sources of uncertainty and increased costs created by the Trump administration."