Energy Tax Credit Defenders Talk Up Jobs While Avoiding ‘Solar’

Thomas Clark said he uttered the word “solar” only once in recent meetings with members of Congress to defend renewable energy tax credits—and that was in his introduction.

The founder of Montana-based Northstone Solar focused on jobs, investments, and costs during his weeklong trek around the Capitol defending the energy tax credits in the Democrats’ 2022 tax-and-climate law.

Other groups are using a similar strategy to convince GOP lawmakers to retain energy credits from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act as Congress hunts for trillions of dollars in savings to pay for the extension of a 2017 GOP tax law. Since ...