Us Renewable Energy has tripled for a decade – but Trump cuts almost $ 8 billion in projects | Trump Administration

Renewable energies in the United States have increased to unprecedented values, with the combined stream of solar, wind and geothermal energy more than tripling in the past decade.

Growth has reduced the harmful greenhouse gas emissions, made the country's energy system more resistant and prevented thousands of early deaths from the pollution of the power plants, according to Environment America.

However, this progress is increasingly resistance, since Donald Trump started reducing federal politics and expenditure on the relaxation of the climate crisis in his first 15 weeks.

Everything happens at a time increased concern among environmentalists. Despite an international agreement for lower greenhouse gas emissions, the atmosphere now contains the record levels for heat release gases. According to a new analysis by Climate Central, an independent non -profit group, which researches and spread information about the climate crisis and its effects, they have warmed up in 1970 since the first day of the earth.

On the highlights of the Environment America report:

• According to the federal data used to create the report, wind, solar and geothermal energy made up 19% of all electricity sales last year.

• Almost 3.3 million electric vehicles were on US roads a 25-fold increase compared to 2014 at the end of 2023. The number of charging ports of electric vehicles increased to more than 218,000 more than in 2015 and an increase of 24% from the previous year.

According to the Argonne National Laboratory, more than 1.5 m plug-in electric vehicles were sold in 2024 in 2024. In the first quarter of 2025, almost 300,000 new electric vehicles were sold in the United States – an increase of 11% compared to the same period last year, as Kelley Blue Book data show.

“The growth of these Clean Energy technologies now clearly benefits people in all 50 states, and they really offer the building blocks of a clean energy system that is free of dirty and inefficient fuels,” said Johanna Neumann, Senior Director for 100% renewable energies, which is led by Environment America. “And the more we can accelerate the progress we have seen, the better it will be for our health and the environment.”

Most of the states in which the greatest increase in wind, solar and geothermal energy in the past ten years has been listed in the south- and most are Republican states, as can be seen from a floodlight analysis of the federal data used in the environment.

Some of these states, including Mississippi and Alabama, are still low in the total amount of renewable energies produced. But other right -wing southern states, including Florida and North Carolina, are now above most others with regard to the entire renewable energy generated.

However, for those who are concerned about the climate crisis, a new analysis points to a more worrying sign: almost $ 8 billion in investment-intelligence-tart-based factories and other projects in the first three months of 2025, according to E2, according to E2, an impartial group of managing directors who campaigns for well-founded environmental policy.

The cancellations are likely to contribute to: market uncertainty and the debate in the congress on the abolition of tax credits and other incentives for Clean Energy projects. The investments with $ 7.9 billion withdrawn this year are more than three times the amount canceled in the past two years, according to the E2 report.

“Clean Energy companies still want to invest in America, but the uncertainty about the policy of Trump administration and the future of critical tax credits for clean energy are calling for a clear tribute,” said E2 spokesman Michael Timberlake in a statement.

The inflation reduction law, Joe Bidens massive climate law, extended tax credits for renewable energies up to at least 2032. It is unclear whether the congress controlled by Republicans will remove these tax credits.

“I think that market security is currently removed for many of these technologies and they feel restless,” said Neumann. “And so it is not surprising for me that we see a withdrawal in investments.”

Floodlight is a non -profit newsroom that examines the forces that bring climate measures to a standstill.