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First 100 days: 95 clean energy projects threatened or canceled, $71 billion at risk (May 1, 2025)

May 1, 2025 — A report from environmental advocacy group Climate Power found that in President Trump's first 100 days, 95 clean energy projects had been delayed, threatened, or outright canceled across the United States, representing 62,554 jobs and $71.24 billion in investments — a toll driven by the combination of executive orders freezing IRA and infrastructure law funding, the offshore wind moratorium, tariffs on solar panel imports, and broad policy uncertainty that caused private investors to pull back.

The largest share of losses fell on Republican-led congressional districts, which had attracted the most clean energy manufacturing investment during the Biden years. Data from research firm Atlas Public Policy showed clean-technology manufacturing investment announcements had already fallen from a peak of $86 billion in 2022 and $85 billion in 2023 to $39 billion in 2024, and continued to fall sharply in early 2025. A record number of green manufacturing projects were axed in the first quarter of 2025 alone, with solar panel assembly facilities, battery plants, and wind component manufacturers among the hardest hit.

Climate Power warned that the manufacturing losses would grow, as 399,000 existing clean energy jobs remained at risk from a legislative agenda that could roll back the IRA's clean energy tax credits entirely. Specific projects already impacted included a Singapore-based solar panel factory in Indianapolis that halted plans to double capacity, a Canadian solar cell plant in Minnesota reassessing its future, and a Norwegian solar wafer producer that paused a planned facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.