by Audrey Streb
The Daily Caller
Investors have been pivoting away from the green energy industry since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, according to data from BloombergNEF.
Green energy investments were down 36% — $20.5 billion — in the first half of 2025 as compared to the second half of 2024, according to BloombergNEF. While former President Joe Biden pushed for green energy technology through billions in government subsidies, loans and grants, the Trump administration has cracked down on intermittentenergy sources like wind and solar and favored reliable energy sources like nuclear, coal, oil and gas…
Trump has moved to halt several wind projects in the past several weeks, all while carving out more opportunities for oil and gas leasing on federal waters that Biden had severely minimized.
“Mirroring what Presidents Obama and Biden did to the fossil fuel industry, President Trump is using the regulatory process to make it more uncertain and difficult for investors in wind projects to earn financial returns. Congress couldn’t kill off the Green New Scam in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, so President Trump is doing it on his own administratively,” Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the DCNF. “This is perfectly fine as investor in the context of a wind project is just a euphemism for subsidy seeker.”
