Weekly Briefing: Time to take advantage of clean energy tax credits

August 27, 2025

Over the last few weeks (months, years!) we’ve talked a lot about the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate measures — they helped avoid a billion tons of climate pollution and have been critical drivers of job growth and clean energy projects across America.

With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, many of those measures are set to expire early. That unfortunately includes some tax credits for clean, affordable power generation that we worked hard to defend, which sunset next summer. Many household tax credits for things like heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, and rooftop solar, will expire at the end of this year.

Our friends at Rewiring America just launched an effort to encourage homeowners to take advantage of those tax credits in these final months before they expire.

In this “Save on Better Appliances” campaign, Rewiring America is making it easy for people to get the information and support they need to make climate-friendly upgrades to their homes and benefit from the tax credits.

Here are a few of Rewiring America’s resources to check out for yourself or share with others:

• Tax Credit and Electrification Q&A Drop-In Sessions. These free Q&A sessions are held several times a week through early October, and registration is open now.

• Personal Electrification Planner, to get tailored recommendations of electric upgrades you could make to your home.

• Contractor Lookup, to find trusted, expert contractors to work with.

Head to Rewiring America’s “Save on Better Appliances” page to access all their resources and help maximize the pollution cuts — and savings! — your household can get from the IRA’s tax credits.

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In other news this week

A moonshot mindset: Read this essay from a CCL volunteer who attended our Capitol Hill lobby day for the first time last month. He compares climate advocacy to the space race, writing that both have “required us to act across divides, invent new technologies, and, most importantly, believe we could do something no one had done before.”

Shout out to CCL Youth: Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (D-NC-04) shared posts on Facebook, Threads, and X recognizing the work of CCL youth in her district, who participated in the National Youth Action Team’s Great School Electrification Challenge. The posts came after she learned about the local challenge winners in a face-to-face meeting with CCLers on Capitol Hill last month.

Take action this week

If you have a little time: Contact Congress about climate funding. Members of Congress are nearly back from their August recess, and you’ve already blown past our goal of 10,000 messages to them about climate funding at federal agencies! With 10 days left in this action, CCL volunteers have already sent 11,494 messages encouraging Congress to fund key climate programs at NOAA, NASA and the Department of Energy. Send yours if you haven’t already, or share the action with a friend.

If you have more time: Dive into new data about people’s climate perspective. On the Nerd Corner forum this week, CCL Research Manager Dana Nuccitelli shared some data from a new survey by the Environmental Voter Project. “In a nutshell, they found that Americans are pretty concerned about climate change [...] But when asked about specific ways to address climate change, almost every response involved individual rather than political/policy action,” Dana explains. Check out the data for yourself to better inform your climate conversations with friends, family and neighbors.

Upcoming events

9/3: Jewish Action Team Resilience Workshop - CCL’s Jewish Action Team is hosting a workshop with Tamara Staton, resilience coach and transformational facilitator of Changing Your Climate. “Rosh Hashanah is coming soon. We can use some help building our resilience so we can start the year ready to take on the mitzvah of saving our planet,” the team says. RSVP to attend.

9/13: September monthly meeting - Each month, CCL hosts a virtual meeting for our chapters and volunteers nationwide. Our meeting for September takes place this Saturday at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT and features climate scientist Dr. Daniel Swain as our guest speaker, discussing wildfires and climate change. See you there!