{"id":23471,"date":"2025-05-05T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/congresss-fight-over-trumps-agenda-runs-through-alaska\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:06:12","slug":"congresss-fight-over-trumps-agenda-runs-through-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/congresss-fight-over-trumps-agenda-runs-through-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress\u2019s Fight Over Trump\u2019s Agenda Runs Through Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Twice a month, planes land on the gravel airstrip in Noatak, Alaska, about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle, carrying the diesel that residents need to heat their homes in the bitter cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And once a month, they receive electricity bills four times higher than those for most of the rest of the country that include two separate charges: one for the cost of the energy itself, and another for the cost of the fuel used to fly it there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe fuel cost is the thing that kills,\u201d Bessie Monroe, 56, who works as an assistant to the village\u2019s tribal administrator, said as she pulled up her bill. Even though she supplements the heat from her generator with a wood-burning stove \u2014 and can still sometimes feel the chill of wind through one of her walls \u2014 Ms. Monroe has paid roughly $250 a month for electricity for her small one-bedroom house this winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So a few years ago, in an effort to build a local source of electricity and save residents money, the Inupiat village of 500 worked with its utility company to install a small farm of solar panels. And when Congress approved new tax credits for clean energy projects in 2022 through the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the village saw an opportunity to buy more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the fate of the project \u2014 and dozens more like it in Alaska and around the country \u2014 is now in doubt, leaving villagers unsure of their financial future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those doubts are at the root of an intraparty feud unfolding among Republicans in Washington, where G.O.P. members of Congress are casting about for ways to pay for President Trump\u2019s domestic agenda. Some fiscal hard-liners have zeroed in on clean energy tax credits as a prime target for elimination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, has become an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lisamurkowski\/status\/1910369901195243646\/photo\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">outspoken proponent<\/a> of keeping the tax credits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA wholesale repeal, or the termination of certain individual credits, would create uncertainty, jeopardizing long-term project planning and job creation in the energy sector,\u201d Ms. Murkowski and three other Republicans wrote in a letter to the Senate majority leader last month to make the case for preserving the clean energy breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The calls to scrap them have already had an effect. The leading builder of solar farms along Alaska\u2019s Railbelt, the state\u2019s most populous region, cited uncertainty over the tax credits\u2019 future when it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/business-economy\/energy\/2025\/02\/18\/developers-put-brakes-on-multiple-solar-energy-projects-as-southcentral-alaska-faces-gas-shortage\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pulled out of a major project<\/a>. Dozens more projects have been left in limbo after Mr. Trump signed an executive order in January to freeze federal grants financed by the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And all of it comes as Alaskans <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/business-economy\/energy\/2025\/01\/22\/rolling-blackouts-could-loom-for-urban-alaska-as-natural-gas-crunch-intensifies\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prepare for looming natural gas supply shortfalls<\/a>, which have prompted state officials to warn of the possibility of rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt seemed like two, three years ago, there was a lot of enthusiasm moving forward with a lot of these projects,\u201d said Matt Bergan, an engineer who worked for the electric association based in the hub city of Kotzebue, 50 miles south of Noatak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe know what we need up here,\u201d Mr. Bergan continued. \u201cWe need the wind and the solar and the storage to make heat, and get away from diesel fuel. And the stars were aligning. These big federal dollars were going to be coming through. We got our projects shovel-ready to go. And now all the stars are have unaligned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Similar stories are playing out all across the country. But nowhere has the law had a more profound effect on everyday access to power than in Alaska, where energy companies have sought to leverage the tax credits to build out renewable energy infrastructure in isolated communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is still a substantial amount of money that has to come out of pocket in order to make these projects work,\u201d said Bill Stamm, the chief executive of Alaska Electric Village Cooperative, a nonprofit electric utility serving residents in 59 locations throughout rural Alaska, including Noatak. \u201cIf you can get some of that money back, especially for folks that have a tax appetite \u2014 that I think, swayed the movers and shakers, the folks that are going to decide, \u2018Do we want to actually get involved in this kind of business?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At an event last month in Anchorage, Ms. Murkowski recounted a conversation she had had with the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, in which he commented there would be little support from the Trump administration for wind energy projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRemember that so many of the communities in the state of Alaska are never going to benefit from a natural gas pipeline,\u201d Ms. Murkowski recounted replying. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to do a spur out to Togiak. It\u2019s not going to do a spur out to Kobuk. So please, please don\u2019t forget the opportunities that come to our more rural communities that are more isolated, who need to be able to access the resources that are there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even simple tasks in Noatak are often difficult. For years, the utility company servicing the village would send some diesel by barge during the spring and summer months. But the Noatak River\u2019s water levels have since dropped so low that the utility can now only fly in the fuel. There are no roads to Noatak, and the closest city, Kotzebue, population 3,000, is more than an hour away by all-terrain vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou could probably get to Hawaii as cheap as you can get to Noatak from Anchorage,\u201d said Mr. Stamm, the utility executive. \u201cSo it\u2019s not insignificant that we have to fly people there to do repairs. We have to fly all of our material in there to do repairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late last year, the planes used to fly in the diesel suffered mechanical issues and were grounded for weeks. The village rationed diesel for residents, forcing many, like Ms. Monroe, to rely heavily on their wood-burning stoves. It was 25 to 35 degrees below zero then, she and other residents recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt happens a lot, fuel shortages,\u201d said Tristen Ashby, the village\u2019s tribal administrator. \u201cAnd some people don\u2019t have wood stoves up here, so they only have one source of heat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cold in the winters, Mr. Ashby added, \u201cis like you wouldn\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During that shortage, Ms. Monroe ran out of the wood she asks her 20-year-old daughters to chop. \u201cI was asking, \u2018Lord, I need wood today.\u2019 Later on, there were two logs outside of my house. I walked out and there were two logs. And that was a humbling experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When diesel is accessible, its fumes linger in the air over residential streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen I came into this office, I asked the previous administrator, who got us the solar panels, \u2018How could I get another farm?\u2019\u201d said Mr. Ashby, who, at 22, is the youngest person to ever serve as tribal administrator. \u201cWith solar energy, there\u2019s no fuel emission. Every day we see smoke coming out of the plant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the real reason he hopes to pivot to solar energy, he said, is to bring down costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the average residential electricity rate in the United States is around 16 cents per kilowatt-hour, Noatak pays more than a dollar. On a recent visit, heating fuel was running $13 a gallon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some larger homes cost $1,700 month to heat, and residents say it is not uncommon for them to pay their electric bills in installments. Robbie Kirk, who lives in Noatak in a house he built himself, recalled receiving a $2,500 electricity bill one month about seven years ago, when the temperature sunk to negative 60 and stayed there for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That often presents tough decisions. Mr. Kirk described how he and others each winter must decide whether to heat their water line. If they do, it drives up their electric bill. If they don\u2019t, the pipe could freeze and burst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The more common trade-off, he said, is deciding between spending money on heating fuel or gasoline for the ATVs and snow machines they use to drive across the snow-covered gravel roads that cut through the village. Around 5 p.m. each day, just before the single gas pump at the village store closes, a small line forms. On a recent Thursday afternoon, Tianna Sage was filling up her brother\u2019s snow machine so he could use it to go duck hunting. She said she would need to refuel it every day for him, at the cost of $11 a gallon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI work three jobs to make sure the struggle is not there,\u201d Mr. Kirk said. \u201cBut I have a lot of family here, a lot of widowed uncles, widowed aunts that they\u2019re not able to, just not physically able to. So just watching them struggle with those decisions on whether they should buy heating fuel or buy gas. That determines \u2014 I don\u2019t want to say how well they live their life \u2014 but how much easier it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sitting in her office, Ms. Monroe said she still had hope that Congress would preserve the federal support for villages like Noatak. She said she would worry about her daughters\u2019 ability to pay their bills each month if some kind of change did not come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur future, it doesn\u2019t look good, per se, with the cost of living right now,\u201d she said. \u201cI start to realize that all this is going to come upon them. They\u2019re going to have to carry the burden of heating their homes or buying food.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/congresss-fight-over-trumps-agenda-runs-through-alaska.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a month, planes land on the gravel airstrip in Noatak, Alaska, about 70 miles 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