Green New Deal’s ‘obituaries were premature’ – Wash Post oped: ‘How green energy will survive Trump

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Green New Deal’s ‘obituaries were premature’ – Wash Post oped: ‘How green energy will survive Trump to fight climate change’ – But admits ‘enthusiasm to combat climate change…is gone’
By Admin
July 28, 2026
7:53 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/28/how-green-energy-will-survive-trump-fight-climate-change/

The path forward for the clean energy transition
The climate community will want to restore what it lost. That’s the wrong strategy.

By Lily Bermel
Lily Bermel is a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Excerpt: When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, much of the climate world declared America’s energy transition dead. The law rescinded most of the grants and loans from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act and phased out the wind and solar tax credits — just as the Trump administration rolled back regulations on fossil fuels.

But the obituaries were premature, at least for the power sector. Yes, the administration’s policies will result in less clean energy and higher prices. But the energy transition was never a creation of statute. It’s driven by technological innovation, market forces, geopolitical competition and national security imperatives. The direction is settled, and policy sets the pace. …

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