Some local businesses are starting to feel the effects of the Trump administration’s clean energy rollback — the result of Republicans' tax and spending plan.
Kimber Lanning is with Local First Arizona. She says organic producer West Valley Farms had applied for tax credits to cover a half-million dollar solar rooftop project.
Now, those rebates, which would have saved the farm $56,000 a year in energy costs, are not coming.
“The solar panels contain parts made in China so they’re prohibited. And so therefore the farm cannot afford to move forward," Lanning said.
She says West Valley Farms is one of the region’s largest producers of organic vegetables.
“They provide food to the entire greater Phoenix area. And if you add that on to other types of expenses, rising utility costs, their margin continues to get thinner and thinner and thinner," Lanning said.
Roughly three dozen businesses in Arizona were also hit by the rollbacks.
