On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: the massive spending bill that is expected to be the landmark legislative accomplishment of the first year of the President’s second term. The climate, environmental, and energy provisions of H.R. 1 are a concerted attack on the Inflation Reduction Act and a significant setback for climate and environmental justice in the United States. H.R. 1’s debilitating changes to the IRA’s clean energy tax credits will delay the country’s transition to renewable energy, raise household energy bills, slow economic growth, and kill jobs. With the notable exception of the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit program, the IRA’s energy tax credits were generally not targeted to directly benefit frontline communities; however, the adverse climate, health, and economic impacts of these changes are likely to harm frontline communities the most. State and local governments, and civil society, must focus their efforts to remediate harms to frontline communities.

IRA rescissions related to climate, environment, and energy