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May 14, 2025
Washington, D.C. – This week, House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) members on the House Energy and Commerce Committee slammed House Republicans’ obscene budget reconciliation plan to gut life-saving pollution reduction programs, raise Americans’ electricity bills, cut off critical support for high-tech American manufacturing, and legalize corruption for oil and gas companies. These members included SEEC Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui (CA) and Paul Tonko (NY) and were joined by their fellow SEEC colleagues Reps. Nanette Barragán (CA), Kathy Castor (FL), Yvette Clarke (NY), Debbie Dingell (MI), Jennifer McClellan (VA), Kevin Mullin (CA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Scott Peters (CA), Kim Schrier (WA), and Darren Soto (FL).
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May
May 14, 2025
Washington, D.C. – This week, House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) members on the House Ways and Means Committee, including SEEC Vice Chair Don Beyer (VA) and SEEC Members Reps. Judy Chu (CA), Lloyd Doggett (TX), and Jimmy Panetta (CA), blasted House Republicans’ mega bill that gives trillions in tax cuts to billionaires, while taking a sledgehammer to American clean energy production and manufacturing. The bill effectively fully repeals the whole spectrum of clean energy tax credits, under the guise of simply phasing them out. This amounts to selling out the American people to our foreign competitors, who are watching eagerly for America’s clean economy boom to fizzle out.
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May 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) members on the House Natural Resources Committee rejected House Republicans’ scorched-earth plan to sell off our lands, waters, and wildlife to fund tax cuts for billionaires in the Committee’s portion of the Republican reconciliation package. While House Republicans stayed silent throughout almost the entire proceeding, terrified to defend their giveaways to polluters, Democrats fought for our public lands and the American taxpayer. These members included Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) and his fellow SEEC members Reps. Yassamin Ansari (AZ), Julia Brownley (CA), Maxine Dexter (OR), Debbie Dingell (MI), Sarah Elfreth (MD), Val Hoyle (OR), Teresa Leger Fernández (NM), Seth Magaziner (RI), Dave Min (CA), Darren Soto (FL), and Melanie Stansbury (NM).

SEEC IN THE NEWS

Jan 22, 2025

A House Democratic caucus pilloried President Donald Trump’s first set of executive actions, accusing him of working to “gut our bedrock pollution and environmental protections.”

But in a multipage letter filled with both bullet points and outrage, the leaders of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition offered something of an olive branch.


Jan 22, 2025

Democrats who woke up to an avalanche of executive orders from President Donald Trump Tuesday morning are scrambling to strike back against the White House’s new fossil fuel-focused "energy dominance" regime.


Dec 05, 2024

A bipartisan House bill introduced Wednesday would require NOAA Fisheries to conduct new research on whales to provide more accurate information about their core feeding and calving habitats as well as migration patterns.


Dec 05, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he supports taking a “scalpel,” not a “sledgehammer,” to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.

But as the prospect of doing away with billions of dollars of energy and climate subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act in the next Congress is looking closer to becoming a reality, GOP lawmakers — and business groups with a stake in that funding — are amplifying concerns that such an effort would be misguided.


Nov 07, 2024

Democrats and their environment-minded allies are facing a narrowing window to halt Republican plans to roll back gains made in the last four years.

After losing Democratic control of the Senate and watching Vice President Kamala Harris concede her race for the White House to former President Donald Trump, the focus now is on the House(link is external) to see whether Democrats can eke out a narrow majority to prevent a GOP governing “trifecta” in Washington.


SEEC IN THE NEWS

Jan 22, 2025

A House Democratic caucus pilloried President Donald Trump’s first set of executive actions, accusing him of working to “gut our bedrock pollution and environmental protections.”


Jan 22, 2025

Democrats who woke up to an avalanche of executive orders from President Donald Trump Tuesday morning are scrambling to strike back against the White House’s new fossil fuel-focused "energy dominance" regime.


Dec 05, 2024

A bipartisan House bill introduced Wednesday would require NOAA Fisheries to conduct new research on whales to provide more accurate information about their core feeding and calving habitats as well as migration patterns.


Dec 05, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he supports taking a “scalpel,” not a “sledgehammer,” to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.


Nov 07, 2024

Democrats and their environment-minded allies are facing a narrowing window to halt Republican plans to roll back gains made in the last four years.