Republicans Are Splitting the Party Over Clean Energy: Carl Pope

The Republican effort to demonize clean energy across red-voting America has reached a reckoning. The next six months will determine the success or failure of President Joe Biden’s combined climate and reindustrialization initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It will also reveal whether the GOP can hold its coalition together in the face of a clean-energy dilemma, and whether Democrats can use the economic boon that the IRA provides to split Republicans around pocketbook issues.

When Biden signed the IRA his mood was celebratory. The legislation will “take the most aggressive action ever — ever, ever, ever — in confronting ...