Biden’s Key Climate Investment Hurt Georgia, Governor Says (1)

President Joe Biden’s signature climate-change initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, has hurt Georgia more than it has helped, the state’s governor told Bloomberg Television, even as a raft of electric-vehicle and battery manufacturing has created a surge of new jobs.

“It’s really kind of hurt us in a lot of different ways, believe it or not,” Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said in an interview in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday. “We had the Hyundai announcement, we had Rivian, we had the SK battery plant all before the IRA ever passed.”

Kemp accused politicians in Washington of “picking winners and losers” with the ...