Just days after announcing sweeping cuts to clean energy programs across the country, the Trump administration appears to be upping the ante—potentially clawing back billions more in federal funding.
The U.S. Department of Energy initially announced the termination of 321 financial awards on Oct. 2, which the agency said totaled $7.56 billion in taxpayer savings. An additional 327 awards appear on a new, leaked list of projects targeted by the DOE for termination, widely circulated this week among lobbyists, members of Congress and news outlets including Inside Climate News.
The cancellation of all these projects would gut the big federal push in clean energy made under the Biden administration, and experts warned of wide-ranging impacts to jobs, electricity grids stressed by rising dema