Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) criticized the Trump administration’s attacks on renewable energy Wednesday — including its halt to the giant Revolution Wind project — telling an audience at a National Clean Energy Week event it was a mistake to reject an all-of-the-above approach to energy.
“We should not retreat from an all-of-the-above policy. It cannot just be empty rhetoric,” Murkowski told the gathering.
Murkowski’s remarks were disrupted by several protesters at the beginning of the event, who chanted “Alaska burns, Lisa earns,” an apparent reference to the GOP senator’s vote securing passage of Republicans’ sprawling tax and policy bill, H.R. 1 (119), which made it more difficult for renewable energy projects to take advantage of federal tax credits.
“We’re here at kind of a difficult time, maybe my greeters this morning manifest that a little bit,” she said, referring to the protesters. “But the real reality that we’re facing right now is this is not necessarily the happiest year on record for clean energy.”
