On Earth Day, here’s a reminder that Donald Trump and Joe Lombardo are undermining the environment and costing the state jobs and federal investments. 

Trump’s efforts to freeze Inflation Reduction Act dollars is threatening the more than $15.5 billion in investments and the more than 20,000 good-paying clean energy jobs resulting from those investments, the sixth-most in the country. Nevada has claimed more of its potential IRA funds than any other state in the nation, including receiving over $96 million for consumer home energy rebate programs to help Nevadans lower their energy costs. In 2023, Nevada’s clean energy industry employed 35,158 workers and more than 41,000 Nevada families benefited from more than $151 million in tax credits to further lower the costs of clean energy. 

A report released by the Nevada Current revealed that Joe Lombardo has spent his time – on the campaign trail and as governor – criticizing investments made by federal Democrats while taking credit for job-creating projects funded by those same investments, including the IRA. Now, as those same projects – as well as tax credits benefiting our solar industry – are poised to be cut by Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, Lombardo has been silent about the potential loss of tens of thousands of good-paying jobs and the disruption to hardworking people’s lives and wallets.

Meanwhile, despite taking credit for Democratic clean energy jobs investments, Lombardo is the only governor elected or re-elected in 2022 to withdraw their state from the bipartisan U.S. Climate Alliance, ultimately selling out to Big Oil companies despite Nevada being home to two of the fastest-warming cities in the country and Nevadans experiencing some of the worst effects of rampant wildfires. Lombardo continues to be unserious about climate change, going as far as deleting the state’s climate action plan without offering a replacement plan of his own.