Environmental groups are continuing their advertising onslaught against vulnerable Republican lawmakers who voted to pass the tax and spending bill rolling back renewable energy credits.
EDF Action and NRDC Action Fund are spending more than $1 million on ads that highlight unpopular aspects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and tie specific lawmakers to them. The groups are the advocacy arms of the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
EDF Action’s ads target Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) and Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas). While it mentions one of the energy provisions of the bill — the delay of the Inflation Reduction Act’s fee for methane leaks from the oil and natural gas sector — it also mentions tax breaks for high income taxpayers and cuts to Medicaid.
“We feel an obligation and an opportunity to help to connect the dots and say these changes are coming, on purpose, due to the very intentional steps that people like Scott Perry, Derrick Van Orden and Monica de La Cruz took,” EDF Action President David Kieve told POLITICO’s E&E News.
