Policy & regulation

Fossil fuels

Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions

The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the harm.

By Jeff St. John . 16 July 2025
Clean energy

A cheat sheet to clean-energy tax credit changes under Trump’s new law

A whole bunch of incentives will be gone much sooner than expected. Here’s what you need to know.

By Ysabelle Kempe . 14 July 2025
Fossil fuels

Critics fear Trump will use flawed DOE report to push pro-coal agenda

Grid experts say DOE’s new forecast of major blackout risks by 2030 misuses data to justify the Trump administration’s push to force dirty plants to stay open.

By Jeff St. John . 14 July 2025
Fossil fuels

States, enviro groups fight Trump plan to keep dirty power plants going

State regulators, consumer advocates, and environmental groups say the Department of Energy is acting illegally in forcing aging, costly power plants to stay open.

By Jeff St. John . 10 July 2025
Clean energy

Wind and solar developers face a year of hard calls with new GOP law

Giving clean energy projects 12 months to start building and keep tax credits averted “catastrophe,” but won’t solve the energy crisis looming by decade’s end.

By Jeff St. John . 9 July 2025
Geothermal

Geothermal survives in 'big, beautiful' budget bill — but hurdles remain

The new law preserves tax credits for geothermal, an industry that’s poised to grow with next-gen tech. But anti-China rules and tariffs still pose risks.

By Maria Gallucci . 9 July 2025
Offshore wind

Tax credit cuts in Trump’s megabill imperil two fully approved wind farms

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes rollbacks of clean energy incentives that at least two offshore wind projects rely on to pencil out financially, analysts say.

By Clare Fieseler . 8 July 2025
Clean energy

Anti-China rules make GOP megabill even worse for clean energy

Tax credits for battery, geothermal, nuclear, and manufacturing projects survived — but restrictions on Chinese materials could make them near-impossible to use.

By Jeff St. John . 8 July 2025
Clean energy

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ law tethers the US to the past

The law takes a sledgehammer to key pieces of American industrial policy, threatening the development of clean energy — a vital 21st century technology.

By Dan McCarthy . 7 July 2025
Clean energy

Chart: ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ would cause energy bills to go up in every state

Legislation just passed by the Senate would undo clean-energy tax credits, slowing the addition of new power to the grid and saddling customers with rising costs.

By Dan McCarthy . 3 July 2025