President Donald Trump’s cuts to the US clean energy industry have led to significant job losses and threatened almost $70bn in project investments, according to a Climate Power report.
On Donald Trump’s election campaign trail last year, he pledged to boost oil and gas production in the US with a promise to “drill, baby, drill”.
Indeed, his day one executive orders honoured this promise. Just hours after taking office, Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. He also announced a “national energy emergency” that allowed him to swiftly reverse many Biden-era regulations that aimed to curtail the oil and gas sector, including shutting down construction on the Keystone Pipeline.
In April, he also signed a series of executive orders designed to reinvigorate the US coal industry. At the same time, another executive order aimed to curb the power of individual states to block energy projects over climate change concerns.
Following 100 days in office, a report from climate advocacy group...