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News Articles: Inflation Reduction Act

Gov. Brian Kemp smiles as he stands next to a Rivian electric truck during a ceremony to announce that the electric truck maker plans to build a $5 billion battery and assembly plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta.

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Gov. Brian Kemp attacks Biden's electric vehicle policy at federally-backed battery material maker

Gov. Brian Kemp is escalating his attack on President Joe Biden's electric vehicle policy. Kemp spoke Tuesday at the groundbreaking for a company that got more than $100 million in federal funding to refine graphite for electric batteries. But Kemp says Biden's infrastructure law wrongly puts the government's "thumb on the scale."

June 27, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A sign touting the Inflation Reduction Act is seen at Glynwood Boat House in Cold Spring, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 2022.

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  • Politics

The EPA's watchdog is warning about oversight for billions in new climate spending

The Environmental Protection Agency received billions from President Biden's climate legislation, but the EPA inspector general warns there is "a high risk for fraud, waste and abuse."

April 01, 2023
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By:
  • Eric McDaniel
In an aerial view, Tesla cars recharge at a Tesla charger station in Corte Madera, Calif., on Feb. 15, 2023. The Biden administration wants to boost sales of electric cars, but it also wants to incentivize U.S.-based production.

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  • Business

The $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric car is about to change yet again

Tax credits for electric car purchases are getting even more complicated. It will likely mean fewer vehicles will qualify — but we don't know which.

March 31, 2023
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks with President Biden at the global meeting of G-20 leaders on Nov. 15, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Indonesia

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  • Europe

Biden and the EU's von der Leyen meet to ease tensions over trade, subsidy concerns

The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, promises tax breaks to companies making technology for clean energy. European leaders are concerned companies will flee to the U.S. to cash in on the tax breaks.

March 10, 2023
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Lateef Dowdell watches the sunrise on Jan. 14, 2021, from what remains of land once belonging to his uncle Gil Alexander, who was the last active Black farmer in the community of Nicodemus, Kan.

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  • Politics

Black farmers worry new approach on 'race neutral' lending leaves them in the shadows

White farmers' suits blocked a USDA program and led to a race-neutral approach.

February 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
President Joe Biden spoke about his administration's plans to protect Medicare and lower health care costs, Thursday, the same day his administration released draft guidance of Medicare's new plan to regulate drug prices.

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  • Health

Medicare announces plan to recoup billions from drug companies

Drugmakers will be required to pay Medicare back for price increases that outpace inflation. The industry is expected to put up a fight over implementation.

February 09, 2023
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By:
  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
The first nacelles onboard a sea energy "jack-up ship," ready for lifting into place on the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm, off Whitstable, Kent, England.

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  • Climate

California offshore wind promises a new gold rush while slashing emissions

A federal offshore wind lease auction in December off California's coast promises to kickstart a work boom on the state's northern and central coasts.

December 30, 2022
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  • John Upton - Climate Central and
  • Kevin Stark / KQED
man gets shot

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  • Health

Enrollment in federal marketplace insurance is up nearly 30% in Georgia

The latest deadline to sign-up during the current open enrollment period is Jan. 15.

December 13, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
Louana Joseph and her daughter, Marlie, outside their former apartment complex in southwestern Atlanta. Joseph moved out of the unit because she suspects the gray and brown splotches that were spreading through the apartment were mold. After rents soared during the pandemic, some families were forced to live in substandard housing, which increased their risk for health problems such a s asthma and lead poisoning.

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  • News

Her apartment might have put her son’s health at risk. But ‘I have nowhere else to go’

A nationwide affordable housing crisis has wreaked havoc on the lives of low-income families, like Louana Joseph’s in Atlanta, who are close to the brink. Their struggle to stay a step ahead of homelessness is often invisible.

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Renuka Rayasam and
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly
President Biden speaks during an event Tuesday celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on the South Lawn of the White House. The new law gives Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices.

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  • Health

Legal fights and loopholes could blunt Medicare's new power to control drug prices

The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to limit prescription drug prices. But the pharmaceutical industry is already lobbying to dull their impact.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Chris Carnevale of SACE; Chatham County Commissioner Aaron “Adot Whitely; AJ Jeanty of Creative Solar; and Savannah Alderman Nick Palumbo

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  • News

Savannah-area officials plan to use climate incentives in Inflation Reduction Act

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t have “climate” in its name but it’s expected to bring an estimated $180 million of investment in large-scale clean power generation and storage to Georgia by 2030 and add almost 110,000 clean energy jobs in the state.

September 06, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
Congresswoman Nikema Williams and Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a roundtable conversation with leaders from Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood September 1, 2022.

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  • News

Federal funds offer green solutions for divided Atlanta neighborhoods

After facing decades of environmental harm caused by a highway dividing the neighborhood in the 1950s, residents in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn neighborhood want solutions. Funding from the Inflation Reduction Act could help.

September 02, 2022
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  • Amanda Andrews
Electric vehicles are displayed at a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2021. The Biden administration's climate and health care bill passed by Congress last week revamps a tax credit for buyers of electric cars.

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  • Business

You can get a $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric car, but it's really complicated

The Biden administration's climate and health care bill revamps the available tax credits for buyers of electric cars. Here's what to know about how they work.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Kemp files to block Fulton subpoena; Biden signs new law; Pence calls for calm

Thursday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp has filed to block the subpoena calling him before the Fulton County special grand jury. Meanwhile, President Biden has signed an expansive law, addressing tax, climate and drug prices. Plus, Mike Pence asks Republicans to stop harsh rhetoric against the FBI.

 

August 18, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
The Internal Revenue Service building is seen in Washington, D.C., on April 5. The IRS got $80 billion in new funding as part of the climate and health care bill passed by Congress on Friday. Most of that money will be used to target wealthier tax evaders.

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  • Economy

The IRS just got $80 billion to beef up. A big goal? Going after rich tax dodgers

The big climate and health care bill passed by the House Friday includes billions in new funding for the IRS over the next decade. Most of that money is aimed at catching wealthy tax cheats.

August 14, 2022
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  • Scott Horsley
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