Energy

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced that they sent a letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and John Kennedy (R-LA) respectively, asking them to support the President’s request to include more than $200 million in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office to support a...

Letter Follows Decision by Department of Commerce to Investigate Solar Circumvention Petition, Threatening Thousands of U.S. Clean Energy Jobs and Higher Costs for Consumers

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), led a bipartisan group of 19 colleagues in a letter urging President Joe Biden to expedite and bring to a swift conclusion the Administration’s investigation...

Letter Follows Decision by Department of Commerce to Investigate Solar Circumvention Petition, Threatening Thousands of U.S. Clean Energy Jobs and Higher Costs for Consumers

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), led a bipartisan group of 19 colleagues in a letter urging President Joe Biden to expedite and bring to a swift conclusion the Administration’s investigation into solar...

Rosen Has Been Leading the Effort to Protect the U.S. Solar Industry and American Jobs from Harmful Tariffs

WASHINGTON, DC – During a hearing yesterday of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) pressed Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about the risks that potential additional tariffs would pose to the U.S. solar industry, including jeopardizing tens of thousands of good-paying American jobs. This follows a Rosen-led bipartisan letter last...

Last Year, Senators Rosen and Grassley Introduced Bipartisan Legislation to Require Big Oil and Gas Companies to Pay their Fair Share by Modernizing the Outdated Public Lands Royalty System

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) applauded the U.S. Department of Interior’s recent announcement that it will be raising the royalty rates for new competitive oil and gas lease sales on public lands to 18.75 percent. DOI's plan to modernize federal oil and gas royalties for public...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) announced today that they are leading a bipartisan group of senators in a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging Secretary Gina Raimondo to carefully assess the validity of a recently filed petition to expand job-killing tariffs on solar panels and cells imported from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. 

In addition to Senators Rosen and Heinrich, the bipartisan letter was signed by Senators Jerry...

Last Week, Rosen Introduced Bipartisan Legislation to Repeal Section 201 Solar Tariffs that the Biden Administration Recently Extended

Local and National Organizations Endorse Rosen’s Bipartisan Legislation 

HENDERSON, NV – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) visited SunRun in Henderson with the Director of the Governor’s Office of Energy, David Bobzien, to discuss the effects that Section 201 tariffs are having on the solar industry and the growing support for her new bipartisan bill to...

This Bipartisan Legislation Will Lower Clean Energy Costs, Bolster Domestic Solar Manufacturing, And Create American Jobs

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) introduced their bipartisan Protecting American Solar Jobs and Lowering Costs Act, which would repeal the Administration’s Section 201 tariffs on solar panels and create a Department of Energy program to enhance domestic production and manufacturing of solar panels and other solar energy...

WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the Biden Administration announced its decision to partially extend Section 201 tariffs on imported solar panels while making bifacial panels exempt and doubling the amount of solar cells that can be imported. News of the decision comes after U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) led a bipartisan group of senators in urging President Biden against extending the harmful solar tariffs and asking the Administration to exclude bifacial panels if tariffs were extended. 

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Imported, Affordable Solar Panels Support Over 200,000 American Jobs, Including More than 6,000 Workers in Nevada

LAS VEGAS, NV – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) responded to the Biden Administration’s disappointing decision to partially extend Section 201 tariffs on imported solar panels and cells, while praising the decision to exclude bifacial panels. Last month, Senator Rosen led a bipartisan group of senators in urging President Biden against extending the harmful solar tariffs and...