by Audrey Streb
The Daily Caller
Though the second Trump administration has pivoted from the Biden administration’s aggressive and climate-centric policies, Americans could still face a year of rising electricity costs and potential energy bottlenecks in 2026.
President Donald Trump and Congress voided several harsh Biden-era policies in 2025 that would have restricted oil and gas development and enacted a de facto national electric vehicle (EV) mandate. The Trump administration has cut billions in green energy spending, which contrasts with former President Joe Biden’s focus on expensive climate initiatives.
Additionally, the Trump administration has moved to boost conventional energy sources like coal while also looking to advance newer technologies like fusion. Though the Biden administration also moved to advance nuclear energy, it cracked down on the oil and gas sector, blocking and restricting development in areas across the U.S. and freezing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports…
Steve Milloy, senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, previously told the DCNF that “while it’s quite possible that many consumers will face high prices for less reliable power in the near-term because of tremendous data center needs and a grid that has been crippled by green policies, what we actually need are more power plants and fewer green policies.”
