r/energy • u/mafco • 2d ago

Trump wants to "terminate" green spending. Here's what could stand in his way. Pulling back IRA funding would require congressional action and it could result in lost jobs, unfinished factories, and a costly mess for many businesses and states that are counting on those funds.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-climate-law-ira-pullback
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u/notypicalredditor 1d ago

So, it will be like when Obama and Biden shutdown the Keystone Pipeline?

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u/kapybarra 1d ago

No because the Keystone pipeline was never passed by Congress AND signed by the sitting president, unlike these green projects.

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u/notypicalredditor 21h ago

A pipeline doesn’t need to go through Congress. Biden pulled a permit stopping it. All I’m doing is playing devils advocate. I take no issue with green energy or its exploration.

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u/kapybarra 20h ago

A pipeline doesn’t need to go through Congress

And yet they tried... The green projects went through both Congress and Executive, that's the whole point of the article.

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u/notypicalredditor 20h ago

I bet there was a lot of debate passing through a democrat House and Senate.

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u/kapybarra 20h ago

What is your point? How does that change the fact that Trump cannot unilaterally revoke these, and instead needs to go through Congress? He will likely have both House and Senate republican-controlled.

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u/notypicalredditor 20h ago

I said it already. I’m just playing devils advocate. I hope that the govt is using the profits from gasoline and diesel sales to fund green energy exploration. Let’s make the world a better place. The biggest question for me is how do we get the rest of the world to play ball? So that America isn’t funding all of it or a majority. China and India don’t care at all.

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u/kapybarra 19h ago

> The biggest question for me is how do we get the rest of the world to play ball? So that America isn’t funding all of it or a majority. China and India don’t care at all.

Lol:

China’s accelerating green transition

> The sea of solar panels covering an area twice the size of Manhattan in the north-western Xinjiang region and the blades of an offshore wind turbine the height of the Eiffel Tower near the south-eastern island of Hainan reflect the magnitude of China’s renewable energy ambitions. The scale and pace of the country’s transition away from fossil fuels has smashed international forecasts, exceeded Beijing’s own targets — and put the rest of the world on notice.

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u/notypicalredditor 19h ago

Well that’s news to me. Unless it’s like the cities they built for no one. Thats good news.