Trump’s Tariffs Are An Economic & Environmental Boomerang

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardMar 7, 2025, 3:20 pm483 ptsHotTop
The first Trump trade war was a disaster for US cleantech, and it looks like 2025 is setting up to be an encore performance. Between 2018 and 2020, Trump’s tariffs on solar panels cost the US an estimated 10.5 GW of lost solar capacity, delaying the transition to clean energy ... [continued] The post…

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