During a typically bombastic presidential campaign in 2024, Donald Trump sought to rally his climate-skeptic base in America’s oil-guzzling southern and midwestern states by promising a war on renewable energy and a drastic rollback of the burgeoning green transition.

It helped that the transition was a signature policy of his predecessor and nemesis, President Biden, whose Inflation Reduction Act had unlocked billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks for renewable energy companies and providers of alternative fuel.

Since he took power, Trump has made good on his promise. He’s withdrawn from the Paris Agreement (again). He has blocked approval for wind power, calling it “garbage". He has paused hundreds of billions of dollars of green energy projects, keeping up his campaign pledge that instead Big Oil would be expected to “Drill, baby, drill

"The problem, for Trump, is that the people he hoped to impress with his climate-change bashing brouhaha are the very........

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