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Energy And Environment

The scientific evidence is clear: climate change poses an existential threat. This crisis cannot wait. Rep. Larson and Congress are enacting legislation now to ensure we have healthy and safe planet. Just as importantly, investing in green energy will create good paying jobs right here in Connecticut. Rep. Larson has long been a climate champion and served on the subject’s first ever Congressional committee in 2007, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. 

As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Larson helped write and pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest commitment to reducing climate change and decarbonizing our environment ever made.  

The Inflation Reduction Act invests $370 billion in combatting climate change, the largest investment in our nation’s history. With this funding, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by the end of this decade. 

  • Extends and Creates Critical Tax Incentives to Increase Deployment of Clean Energy: Critical tax credits for established and emerging clean energy technologies will lead to greater deployment and lower emissions while driving down energy costs and creating jobs. The legislation includes Rep. Larson’s legislation to support Clean Hydrogen Production, a critical industry for our environment and Connecticut’s manufacturing economy.  

  • Overturns Supreme Court Decision Gutting the EPA: Includes language responding to a Supreme Court decision that the EPA did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gasses without Congress’s explicit consent. This bill does just that, giving the EPA the authority to take necessary actions to address climate emissions.  

  • Creates Energy Savings for Consumers: Provides billions of dollars in rebates and tax credits for consumers to take action to lower their energy costs, including for energy efficient appliances, rooftop solar and other residential power generation, and new and used electric vehicles.  

  • Invests in Cleaner Communities – Includes: 

    • $1 billion to make affordable housing more energy efficient, 
    • $3 billion to reconnect divided communities, like Hartford’s 84/91 Interchange, 
    • $3 billion for Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants to invest in projects that address environmental and public health harms, 
    • $1 billion for clean heavy-duty vehicles, like school and transit buses and garbage trucks. 

The IRA provides generous incentives for business and individuals to invest in renewable resources and makes energy efficient appliances and home upgrades affordable to low and middle income households. For more information on how you benefit from the IRA please click here


Rep. Larson knows there is still work to do and is leading the fight in Congress to take even more action on climate change. He is the author of the America Wins Act, which would lower carbon emissions by taxing polluters and investing in infrastructure and clean energy. And as a cosponsor of the Green New Deal, he supports tackling change while creating good paying jobs for all Americans. 

Rep. Larson is the founder of the House Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus which raises awareness of the environmental and economic benefits of the development, manufacture, and deployment of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies and associated fueling systems. Connecticut companies pioneered the development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and working with our congressional colleagues and industry we can continue to promote them for our planet and our local economies.   

Rep. Larson also fights against dangerous pollutants that threaten our health, including PFAS Chemicals and is a member of the Congressional PFAS Task Force. He is a cosponsor of legislation and amendments that would require federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense, to take the threats posed by these chemicals seriously.