Governor faces intense backlash amid ‘mind-boggling’ plan to shift millions from state budget: ‘We’re stuck in a cycle of seeing bills spike’

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is facing backlash over a proposal to roll back clean energy incentives in the name of affordability — a move critics say could lower bills briefly while locking families into higher, more unstable energy costs long-term.

Emily Koo of the Acadia Center warned that capping energy efficiency funding ignores long-term savings for families. “It’s a serious concern of mine to cap energy efficiency and to imply that cutting energy-efficiency spending will benefit Rhode Islanders,” she said, per the Current.

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