Climate Power

When you try your best but don’t succeed ✨

There’s no emergency, just Trump bending over backwards for coal executives while families fork over $615,000 a day to keep a dying coal plant on life support.

we’re obsessulated 💚

‘I’d never afford this without help’: Georgia program delivers relief on power bills Georgia homeowners are seeing significant reductions in their electric bills thanks to a new $220 million energy rebate program, part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

Georgia’s $220M energy rebate program is already cutting bills for homeowners, proof that investing in efficiency actually helps families.
https://www.walb.com/2025/11/18/id-never-afford-this-without-help-georgia-program-delivers-relief-power-bills/

Trump’s letting us fall behind instead of leading the world.

Gutting climate research doesn’t save money—it guarantees we ALL pay more when the next disaster hits.

Trump Wants to Talk ‘Affordability,’ But Is Stuck in a Gilded White House Bubble This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

Trump flaunts ‘affordability’ from his gold-plated ballroom while Americans pay more—utilities up 11%, health premiums soaring, SNAP and Medicaid slashed. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-wants-to-talk-affordability-but-is-stuck-in-a-gilded-white-house-bubble

Illinois pushes ahead on clean energy jobs after Trump disrupts predecessor's plans President Trump scrambled his predecessor's plans to lift up American workers by generating clean energy jobs. Despite major policy shifts, Illinois is still trying to make that happen.

Trump is gutting clean energy jobs nationwide, but Illinois is fighting to keep the promise of good union jobs alive.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5602108/illinois-pushes-ahead-on-clean-energy-jobs-after-trump-disrupts-predecessors-plans

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects - Inside Climate News Two-thirds of Texas’ future solar and storage developments are at risk of delay or cancellation due to regulatory uncertainty, a report warns.

Trump’s energy policies are holding Texas back: Two-thirds of the state’s planned solar and battery projects are now stuck in limbo.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112025/trump-policies-texas-solar-battery-projects/

Trump didn’t just trim clean energy funding—he America’s energy future in question.

Turkey, taters and truth: Taking Trump's Thanksgiving claim to checkout • Kentucky Lantern Is Thanksgiving really cheaper this year, as President Trump claims? Our columnist goes to Walmart to check the president's claim.

Only Trump would claim rising costs are “tumbling down” and expect people not to notice the grocery bill in their hands. https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/18/turkey-taters-and-truth-taking-trumps-thanksgiving-claim-to-checkout/

New analysis shows more US consumers are falling behind on their utility bills A new analysis of consumer data shows that more people in the United States are falling behind on their utility bills

Trump's shoving families into crisis while shielding the corporations driving up costs. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/new-analysis-shows-us-consumers-falling-utility-bills-127586486

And now, right before Thanksgiving, he’s pretending a rollback is some kind of rescue. We know who lit the fire in the first place.

New analysis shows more US consumers are falling behind on their utility bills A new analysis of consumer data shows that more people in the United States are falling behind on their utility bills.

We know just who to blame 👉🍊
https://apnews.com/article/trump-inflation-utility-bills-16cf846b44369b5b9660238be7112a4d

Trump Says America Is in ‘Golden Age,’ Straining to Address Affordability

A $5 value meal stunt won’t hide it: Trump’s tariffs and energy chaos are pushing prices higher. He talks a big game on affordability while making life more expensive for everyone. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-mcdonalds-affordability-inflation.html

Trump talked a big game on affordability, but his promises curdled into higher bills and harder days, all while families struggle to keep up.

“Lower costs on day one”…eight months late and counting.

How to Deal With Higher Home Heating Bills

As temperatures drop, bills rise. Trump cut LIHEAP and killed clean energy projects, forcing families to pay the price.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/your-money/home-heating-bills.html

Trump gutted the very EV and battery jobs Republicans once bragged about. Now $23 billion in projects and 30,000 jobs have vanished.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2025/11/13/ev-investments-boosted-gop-districts-under-trump-its-going-away/86205617007/

Even his bid for exemptions can’t undo the damage tariffs have already done to our cost of living.

At least he exceeds at some things ⬇️

The least surprising news to come out.

Apparently, Trump’s strategy for fighting climate change is to make climate change worse.

Economic promises helped Trump get elected. Now he has an affordability problem Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, even as President Trump tries to tout "record highs" in the stock market.

You can’t gaslight people at the grocery store. Life is less affordable thanks to Trump. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5608348/trump-economy-affordability

The elections were a referendum on energy—and Democrats won Welcome to the electric blue wave.

Voters are DONE paying Trump’s astronomically high energy bills.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/democrats-elections-energy-electricity-power-bills/

Even his own base sees how badly he’s managing things.

Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home.

On the Outer Banks, homes are washing away and seas keep rising. Climate change isn’t tomorrow’s threat—it’s today’s disaster.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/battling-the-sea-on-the-outer-banks

Trump’s not leading—he’s nodding off while families face record energy costs. A lame duck with a gold-plated desk and no plan to lower bills.

Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them POLITICO’s E&E News examined satellite imagery of more than 100 homes owned by Republican lawmakers to see if they have solar panels. Seven had rooftop

Republicans used solar panels to lower their electricity bills. Then voted to make sure you couldn’t.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-republicans-who-killed-solar-subsidies-after-using-them-2/