Today, November 9, at 11 a.m. ET/9:00 a.m. MT, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will host a press conference urging their Senate colleagues to pass the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA). The Senate is slated to vote on the legislation Monday evening.
The senators will cite studies from industry groups Rhodium, Solar Energy Industries Association, and Grid Strategies, none of which are studies of the final bill text, which was released Saturday.
The senators will not cite Kevin Kircher’s independent analysis.
Oil Change International has published a critique of the Rhodium analysis.
Rhodium isn’t looking at what BAAJA will do for fossil-fuel exports. And their assumptions, including good-faith implementation by the Trump regime, essentially force the outcome of their models. Rhodium’s public modeling, as opposed to the modeling they do for industry clients, which include data center developers and the LNG industry, have been notoriously wrong about fossil-fuel growth.