Critics say Trump is using every presidential power possible against clean power in sharp turn after Biden investments created jobs<\/p>\n
For several years, Republicans accused Joe Biden of waging a \u201cwar on energy\u201d even as the Untied States drilled more oil and gas than at any time in its history<\/a>. Now, a more tangible assault is gathering pace under Donald Trump \u2013 aimed squarely at wind, solar and other cleaner forms of power.<\/p>\n In the first two weeks of his return as president, Trump has, like his first term, issued orders<\/a> to open up more American land and waters for fossil fuel extraction and started the process to yank the US from the Paris climate agreement<\/a>. \u201cWe will drill, baby drill,\u201d said Trump, who has promised to cut energy and electricity prices in half within 18 months.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Critics say Trump is using every presidential power possible against clean power in sharp turn after Biden investments created jobs For several years, Republicans accused Joe Biden of waging a \u201cwar on energy\u201d even as the Untied States drilled more oil and gas than at any time in its history. Now, a more tangible assault … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}