The greenest president in US history will be succeeded by his anti-green predecessor. Another lurch in the never terribly stable field of US energy policy is guaranteed, but remember that like gray, green comes in different shades. It is worth checking assumptions on what the switch from President Joe Biden to President-elect Donald Trump means for energy.
The first thing to recognize is that, in a sector this big and capital intensive, presidents mostly inherit rather than create from scratch. Biden wanted to move the US away from fossil fuels but began with an economy overwhelmingly dependent upon them. Even two terms ...
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