Solar for none?

Trump’s EPA criminally cancelled Solar For All grants, an excellent climate solution and employment driver. A coalition of 14 Native American tribal governments were poised to deploy $100 million in solar infrastructure to more than 3,500 tribal homes, while training Native youth and veterans in a clean energy workforce that could serve their own communities. That’s been lost for now, but the tribes, standing together, are determined to continue. “Across the country, tens of thousands of low-income households are being told that the solar systems they were promised won’t be installed. That the jobs and training they applied for may not materialize. That another chance to turn energy burden into energy security has slipped away,” writes Oglala Sioux leader Cody Two Bears who founded Indigenized Energy. The solar door may have been slammed shut for now, but, says Two Bears, “we’ll keep knocking. Because this is what leadership looks like in Indian Country: standing up, standing together, and staying the course—especially when the promises are broken.”

Read Cody Two Bears’ full article.