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Chris Pappas

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Legislative Record

  • Opposed keeping expensive, inefficient fossil fuel plants online 

  • Opposed giving priority to electricity generated by expensive fossil fuels 

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  • Opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which repealed groundbreaking clean energy policies, hiking energy bills and giving tax breaks to data centers  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

    • increase New Hampshirites’ household energy costs by approximately $170 per year 

    • impose $900 million in cumulative household energy costs in New Hampshire through 2034 

    • and reduce state GDP by $370 million while eliminating approximately 2,200 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