Ilhan Omar pushes to protect green-energy funding from Trump by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — Ilhan Omar, the first-term representative from Minnesota, is moving to stop the Trump administration from what she says is flagrant abuse of a Department of Energy loan program intended to promote renewable energy.
The House is expected to vote on that amendment, and others, later this week. “Rep. Omar’s amendment is an important tool to ensure that the Department of Energy fulfills its responsibility to use Title XVII loans only for the purposes Congress originally intended,” a Democratic aide on the House Appropriations Committee told Yahoo News. “The language of the amendment sends an unmistakable message that the administration must follow the law with these loan guarantees.
The move to loan $1.9 billion to a project that will bolster the fracking and plastics industry hardly fits under that description of renewable energy. Its centerpiece would be six “cracker” plants, which break apart ethane derived from fracking. The result is polyethylene, which is used to make plastic. While the need for plastics remains high worldwide, their use and manufacture contribute significantly to global warming and pollution.
But the petrochemical project in Appalachia does not appear to meet those qualifications and, in fact, would likely run counter to them, according to critics. If the amendment were entered into law before the ASH loan guarantee came through, it could imperil funding for the projects. Opponents of turning Appalachia over to the petrochemical industry cheered the development and praised Omar.
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