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Brian Fitzpatrick

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Legislative Record

  • Opposed giving priority to electricity generated by expensive fossil fuels

  • Opposed repealing methane emissions fees that will cost taxpayers

  • Opposed slashing energy efficiency programs that save ratepayers hundreds

  • Opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which repealed groundbreaking clean energy policies, hiking energy bills and giving tax breaks to data centers


District-Level Data

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to: 

    • increase Pennsylvanians’ household energy costs by approximately $190 per year 

    • increase Pennsylvanians’ household electricity costs by 3% by 2035 

    • impose $9.3 billion in cumulative household energy costs in Pennsylvania through 2034 

    • and reduce state GDP by $3.6 billion while eliminating approximately 23,000 jobs.  


Sources

  1. Assessing Impacts Of The House “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” On U.S. Energy Costs, Jobs, Health, Emissions 

  2. Congressional ‘grid reliability’ bill is like duct tape on a cracked dam 

  3. House passes bill to fast-track dispatchable generation interconnection 

  4. House Appropriations Committee Democrats, Fact Sheet, 7/13/2025 

  5. Congressional Record, 2/26/2025