The economic cost of Trump’s clean energy rollbacks has been enormous—and it’s still growing

More than 200 major clean energy projects have been cancelled or downsized since Trump took office, costing nearly half a million jobs and $55 billion in annual GDP growth. It’s been a little more than a year since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act began dismantling federal clean energy incentives—just one part of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on renewables, from freezing funds and canceling permits to paying developers to cancel plans for offshore wind. A new report tallies what the policy shift has cost the economy.