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President Donald Trump’s big bill phases out energy tax credits for developers and homeowners, significantly speeding up timelines for clean energy products and threatening their viability. We asked Alexa St. John, a climate reporter with the Associated Press, about how Trump’s new policies could reshape U.S. energy supply.
Wyoming’s top politicians have heaped praise on President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for giving the state’s flagging fossil fuel industries a boost. They’ve also taken swipes at past congress
Reliability has improved dramatically in the U.S. grid with the most renewable energy – in Texas - and electricity prices there are below the national average.
Steve Ghan, a retired PNNL scientist and a member of Friends of PNNL, told the Herald the impacts of jobs that would be lost under the administration’s proposed budget request would ripple through the economy as those workers’ incomes would be no longer be available to be spent on food, goods, entertainment and education.
A new executive order further lowers government support for renewable power. Stocks including First Solar and Enphase Energy dropped on Tuesday.
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The deal with Republican holdouts to end incentives for wind and solar power paved the way for passage of Trump’s mega-tax-and-spending bill. Trump’s July 4 signature on the bill completed the legislative assault on the Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies for renewable energy.
The criticism comes days after the administration succeeded in slashing billions in energy tax credits in the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act.