During his 2024 election campaign, President Trump exhorted oil and gas executives to contribute a billion dollars in exchange for creating a windfall for their industry. The industry responded with more than $450 million to influence the 2024 elections, and the federal government, in turn, went after clean energy with a wrecking ball in 2025 — a shortsighted move that spells trouble for electricity bills, clean air, and America’s technological competitiveness.

Several states from California to Illinois to Maine countered the Trump administration with bold green policies, but New York obsequiously approved a Trump-backed fracked gas pipeline and cryptocurrency mining, stopped the implementation of its landmark climate law in its tracks, and advanced a disastrous state energy plan to burn costly, polluting oil and gas largely unabated for decades.........

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