Give electric bus manufacturers a tax credit of 10% of the sales price
Energy and environment
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
The credit is enacted by Congress, so the goal itself sits with government. Corporate behavior helps at the margin: bus manufacturers would claim this credit, decide what buses to build, and lobby on the policies around it. Automaker advocacy is documented on both sides: InfluenceMap found 14 of 15 major automakers opposed at least one electric vehicle policy, while Ceres organized major companies to defend clean economy tax credits in Congress in April 2025. Owners can align company lobbying behind the credit, but only Congress can keep it in the code. No such credit has ever been enacted, and Congress moved the other way in July 2025 by ending the commercial clean vehicle credit closest to it, so the obstacle is congressional priorities rather than any corporate campaign against electric buses.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
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Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
- Common Ground of the American People: Energy & the Environment, Program for Public Consultation / Voice of the People, survey October 2020
- Automakers and Climate Policy Advocacy: A Global Analysis, InfluenceMap, 2024-05-01
- Businesses return to Capitol Hill to champion clean energy tax credits as Congress debates budget reconciliation, Ceres, 2025-04
- The One Big Beautiful Bill: Impact on the IRA's Clean Energy Tax Credits, Steptoe LLP, 2025-07-23
What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Coordinates the investor network campaign asking companies, including transport and vehicle manufacturers, to disclose whether their direct and trade association lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement.
Documented the 2021 climate lobbying resolution season, including the withdrawals at General Motors and other companies that agreed to improve climate lobbying disclosure.
3 campaigns on record
Report on the company's lobbying policies, expenditures and trade association payments.
Result: Taken to a vote; result not stated in source
we found no documented change
Evaluate and disclose how the company's direct and trade association lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement.
Result: Withdrawn after the company agreed to improve its climate lobbying disclosure
General Motors agreed to improve climate lobbying disclosure, and the filers withdrew the resolution.
Prepare an annual report disclosing lobbying policies, expenditures and oversight, including trade association lobbying, and show whether that lobbying is consistent with the Paris Agreement and the company's stated climate commitments.
Result: not stated in source
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How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
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