LETTER | House bill threatens South Dakota's clean energy future

Letter to the editor by Rick Bell, President of Sustainable Environmental Energy, LLC in Rapid City

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Republicans in the House recently passed their “one big beautiful bill”. While some of its provisions benefit South Dakotans in general, wealthier taxpayers would in fact reap about two-thirds of the benefits. Many provisions in the bill negatively impact us, but I’ll focus just on clean energy.

The bill dismantles long-standing bipartisan clean-energy tax policy, restructures the federal tax code and eliminates clean energy incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).