America’s burgeoning battery belt has gone on a crash diet.
According to a new study out Tuesday, dozens of clean energy projects have slowed down or died during the first six months of the Trump administration — many of them in Republican congressional districts.
“Projects are being paused, cancelled, and closed at a rate 6 times more than during the same period in 2024,” reads the latest report out of the “The Big Green Machine.” The website, which tracks U.S. clean energy investments, is run by Jay Turner, a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and his students.
Big projects are the hardest hit, along with those that got federal funds now marked for removal by the Trump administration. Left high and dry in the receding wave are low-income communities, which are the very people the Biden administration sought to help with the vast resources of the Inflation Reduction Act.
