{"id":782894,"date":"2026-07-25T01:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782894\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:41:50","slug":"what-trmp-has-cost-clean-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782894\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trmp Has Cost: Clean Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From June\/May edition of Clean Economy Works<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-economy-works-june-may-2026-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-economy-works-june-may-2026-2\/<\/a>\u00a0):<br \/>\u00a0\u201cDevelopers planned 22 new utility-scale generation and storage projects in May 2026,\u00a0representing\u00a04,038 MW, approximately\u00a0$6.1 billion\u00a0in investment, 17,440 construction jobs, and 453 permanent jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c12 generation and storage projects were canceled in May,\u00a0representing\u00a03,488 MW of lost capacity,\u00a0nearly\u00a0$5.9 billion\u00a0in abandoned investment, 18,103 lost construction jobs, and 199 lost operational jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYear-to-date generation announcements\u00a0remain\u00a0ahead of cancellations:\u00a084 projects and 17.3 GW have been announced, compared with 58 projects and 13.3 GW canceled or postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From those figures, it seems like we would be moving to renewables close to twice as fast if Trmp wasn\u2019t in power.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is <\/p>\n<p>renewables are cheaper than alternatives<\/p>\n<p>provide 90% or more of annual installed capacity year after year<\/p>\n<p>have 3 times the number of people working than fossil fuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>has been the fastest growing job sector for the last decade<\/p>\n<p>and Trmp is doing his best to kill the whole industry.<\/p>\n<p>Would be good if people pointed this out more often, maybe even incessantly.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe&#8217;ll get straight to the point: The financial hardships that Daily Kos is facing this year are tough.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to be paywall-free. We continue to be supported by our readers, not billionaires or corporations. But we need to bring in more revenue. We are leaning on our community more than ever to help make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPower matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-cta__text\">Sign up for our daily top stories newsletter so you don&#8217;t miss how it&#8217;s being used\u2014and what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>\tWas this story worth reading?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--15)\">\n\tRecommending and sharing stories helps us decide which stories are most important to show our readers.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From June\/May edition of Clean Economy Works(https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-economy-works-june-may-2026-2\/\u00a0):\u00a0\u201cDevelopers planned 22 new utility-scale generation and storage projects in May 2026,\u00a0representing\u00a04,038&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,333371,293419,293420,2351,101,197287,16358,1872,192,333372,36631,8998,10171,74,3479,33409],"class_list":["post-782894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-clean-economy","tag-climate-environment-fight","tag-dk-greenroots","tag-ecology","tag-economy","tag-electric-utilities","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-kosowatt","tag-renewables","tag-solar","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-trump","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}