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ICYMI: Ford, GM Warn That Without Clean Energy Investments, “Our Businesses Will Face Significant Challenges”

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Over 40 Michigan-based companies urge congressional delegation to protect IRA clean energy investments

In a letter highlighted by POLITICO, more than 40 Michigan-based companies—including auto giants Ford and General Motors—urged the state’s congressional delegation to protect the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy investments. Without them, they warned, “our businesses will face significant challenges—hindering expansion, slowing job creation, and jeopardizing Michigan’s leadership in the future of energy and mobility.” 

Their concerns echoed repeated warnings from Ford’s CEO, who has said “many […] jobs will be at risk” if clean energy investments are repealed.

The companies pointed to over a dozen clean energy incentives now under threat from Trump and his Republican allies, policies they say have strengthened their “ability to invest in clean energy production and supply chain capacity” and “have positioned Michigan as a leader in the clean energy economy.”

Republicans have made clear that all the progress in rebuilding American industry and creating jobs is on the chopping block, even calling clean energy investments “low-hanging fruit” to fund their extreme agenda.

ICYMI: POLITICO: Ford seeks help to save IRA tax credits

By: Caitlin Oprysko
March 26, 2025

  • Ford is one of over 40 Michigan-based companies that signed on to a letter sent to members of the state’s congressional delegation earlier this week. 

  • The letter identified a dozen different clean energy incentives from the IRA that the companies wrote “have helped us stay competitive in a rapidly evolving national and global market, where states and countries are making major investments to support automotive manufacturing, advanced energy, energy efficiency, and critical grid services.”

  • “Without these critical incentives, our businesses will face significant challenges—hindering expansion, slowing job creation, and jeopardizing Michigan’s leadership in the future of energy and mobility,” warned the signatories, which also included General Motors, the Michigan arm of Caterpillar and the EV charging company ChargePoint.

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