Trevor Higgins

Climate Change Is Subjecting More Americans to Unbearable Extreme Heat Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, driving up utility bills, straining ecosystems, and deepening inequality.

140M+ Americans are under heat alerts this week. Our new report breaks down how climate change is supercharging this deadly heat, driving up bills, straining hospitals and power grids, and hitting working-class, Black, and brown communities hardest. www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.

New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America.

See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Is this abundance?

This project was approved under FAST-41, meaning it had expedited permit approvals. It also had labor, domestic supply chain, power offtake agreements for communities attached to it... meaning a whole lot of high quality American jobs and affordable energy just went up in flames.

"If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up."

What Trump's Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety In addition to cutting health care and food assistance programs, the act’s energy and environmental provisions would raise energy costs, increase pollution affecting Americans’ health, and increase sa...

Trump signed that "One Big Beautiful Bill" over the weekend, and my colleagues ‪‪@lucerowx.bsky.social‬ and @jasia.bsky.social spell out the ugly consequences for your wallet, health, and safety.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act Endangers the Transformation of Contaminated Sites for Clean Energy Production The congressional Republican spending bill, which President Donald Trump recently signed into law, kills tax credits that help communities turn idle toxic sites such as brownfields and abandoned mines...

Energy communities - left with toxic, abandoned sites and lost employment - were slated to receive new jobs, energy, and revenues fueled by IRA. The ‘Big, Beautiful’ bill pulls the plug on this future by ending tax credits early #OBBB 🔌💡 www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Republicans are voting now for massive layoffs and bankruptcies throughout the clean energy economy – a trillion dollar investment in a better future, abandoned.

The world we would have built is so different from the one we will now have to live in.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

@vanhollen.senate.gov summarizing what gutting the clean energy incentives means --> less electricity capacity additions to the grid and higher prices for Americans

– New taxes on clean energy investment.

– Termination of the Fuel Economy Standards for new cars and trucks.

– A new tax subsidy for coal.

It's a collection of the worst, most harmful ideas you can imagine. And the Republican Senate is voting for them now.

But if you're one of the tens of Americans who makes their living mixing dyes into fuel, has the Senate got some good news for you!

Senate Finance has released its proposed repeals, and I sure hope none of you were hoping to afford a better future for your family, or anything.

Who exactly is winning under the Trump administration? Not people like Cody who just returned home from military leave to a price spike in his electric bill.

➡️ Share this video and let us know if you also got a notice that your electric bill is going up.

Listening To Lead: A Conversation With Gov. Tim Walz Join us for a conversation with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as part of CAP’s “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward” series.

"We're going to have 100 percent carbon-free power in Minnesota, and that's just 10 years away." @governorwalz.mn.gov

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I used to staff a senator from California. There is no way that anything like what just happened to Senator Padilla would ever have been thought possible before this regime's powergrab. If the Senate does not assert itself, it is lost.

While announcing her intent to liberate Los Angeles from its elected officials, the Secretary of Homeland Security oversaw the use of force against a sitting U.S. Senator who dared to question her.

Things were already bad, and this is a major escalation.

Thanks to @lucerowx.bsky.social and @jasia.bsky.social, my coauthors. And thanks to @energyinnovation.org and @rhg.com for their consistently excellent energy systems modeling.

We could have built a grid that would supply up to 88 percent of its electricity without any fossil fuel costs by 2035. Repealing federal clean energy investment will cost us so much.

That means wasting money on expensive and polluting fuel that didn't need to be burned. It means higher costs for households and manufacturers. It makes it harder for data centers and new factories to be placed on the grid. It means hundreds of thousands of lost construction jobs.

Some new baseload gas plants might come online instead (no more than 10 GW/yr), but in place of the new clean affordable electricity that would have been built, power plants would be called on to generate more power, unnecessarily consuming expensive and polluting fuel.

If clean energy tax credits are repealed, the average annual deployment of solar, wind, and storage would likely fall down to 34 GW or even to as little as 13 GW under certain conditions.

IRA changed all that. The explosion in clean energy investment is set to add 58 GW of solar, wind, and batteries to the grid this year. In the coming decade, deployment was projected to surge to an average rate of almost 100 GW per year, or even up to 170 GW per year in 2035.

In the decade before the Inflation Reduction Act was enacted, an average of only 15 GW of solar, wind, and batteries were added to the grid each year. Gas added 4 GW on average. Everything else shrank or stayed constant.

Here's how CAP's new paper today breaks down the latest modeling by the Rhodium Group and Energy Innovation:

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Is Crushing America’s Electricity System More than half of all new capacity added to the grid over the next 10 years will be lost if federal clean energy investment is terminated, threatening a failure to meet U.S. energy demands, to raise e...

As much as 72 percent of all clean energy capacity that would have been built over the next decade would disappear if clean energy investments are terminated.

That would wipe out more than half of all new electricity capacity additions to the grid. Whoa.

The Republican bill is a disaster—for American families, for the environment, for the average family’s budget, and for our global leadership in clean energy.

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.

We need clean energy investment to get new electricity on the grid fast enough. Excellent report here on how killing the federal investment programs will push prices higher.

ICYMI: Ford’s $3 Billion Michigan Investment and 1,700 Jobs at Risk Under GOP Reconciliation Bill  | Climate Power Washington, D.C. – Today the Detroit News reported that the Republican reconciliation bill, which repeals tax credits aimed to onshore domestic clean energy manufacturing, “threatens to foul Ford’s $3...

Detroit News reports that Ford's big investment in MI will be toast if Congress guts America's EV investments.

The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

This is an exceptionally thoughtful critique of the "abundance" story, and it uses several real world examples to show how to think about what it takes for government to build, from the Vogtle nuclear power plants to the New Deal electrification effort.