This report is the first in an Insight Report series designed to clarify siting policy options, provide useful context, and empower others to improve state and local siting policies. This Insight Report provides an overview of every siting policy framework used across the continental United States. Future Insight Reports will synthesize outcomes from the 2025 legislative sessions, investigate options for delivering host community benefits, and demystify site-level design principles.

In this episode, David sits down with Rep. Sean Casten for a frank insider's take on the precarious state of clean energy policy amid our ongoing constitutional meltdown. They dive into the political knife fight over IRA tax credits (some Republicans support them), why transmission reform remains frustratingly partisan despite economic logic, and the fossil industry's fear of competition. Despite the dire political landscape, Casten makes a compelling case for why clean energy developers should keep building through the storm.

Climate Power's latest tracker of the impacts of Trump's policies studies different issues, including clean energy business, impacts on farmers, gas price impacts, utility rate hikes, and more. Users can reach out to Maddie Kriger at maddie@climatepower.us for any questions related to the table.

The Energy Efficient Home Improvement Tax Credit (25C) and the Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit (25D) can wipe out past and future energy price inflation. In 2023 alone, these tax credits helped more than 3.4 million American households — across every state — invest in energy efficiency upgrades like insulation, water heaters, and HVAC equipment, and in geothermal, solar, and battery installations. New analysis from Rewiring America shows that by installing technologies supported by 25C and 25D, American households could effectively roll back the clock on their energy costs. Just using one of those tax breaks could help a household pay the equivalent of 2020 prices today. These savings would only continue into the future, protecting families against price increases. Without efficiency upgrades, the average American household is paying $3,080 per year for energy — 32 percent more than in 2020. But the average home that leverages 25C can cut up to $990 from their annual energy costs, completely wiping out the last four years of energy price spikes. The average home that leverages both 25C and 25D can cut their annual energy bills by more than 70 percent, or $2,240 per year.

A social media toolkit drawing attention to clean energy tax credits and savings that are at risk of being cut by Congress this year.

Across all 48 contiguous U.S. states, IRA repeal would create significant economic damage, including lost jobs, lost GDP, and higher consumer costs. This analysis finds IRA repeal will: increase cumulative household energy costs by $32 billion from 2025-2035; cost America nearly 790,000 jobs in 2030 and more than 700,000 jobs in 2035; decrease GDP more than $160 billion in 2030 and nearly $190 billion in 2035; and increase climate pollution more than 530 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2035, equal to adding 116 million cars to the road. Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Georgia stand out as the biggest losers from IRA repeal due to their poor combination of lost jobs and increased household energy costs. To download a specific state’s fact sheet, click that state’s name on this resource’s map.

In this episode, David Roberts is joined by Albert Gore to discuss the fate of the electric-vehicle tax credits under the Trump administration. Gore explains how the consumer credit provides a demand-side signal to complement the supply-side manufacturing credits, and why eliminating either would primarily benefit Chinese manufacturers.

This map shows locations of electric vehicle charging stations around the U.S.

From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood. What kinds of climate and infrastructure projects have been announced in which communities and across the country? Which ones may now be at risk? Now anyone can use a ZIP code to find out. To understand the stakes of these signature pieces of legislation, Grist developed a tool that combines information across multiple datasets to reveal where more than $300 billion of the funds promised under the two pieces of legislation have been awarded across the United States. Enter a ZIP code, city name, or other location in the search box below to discover projects within any radius of a chosen area.

Americans do NOT want to pull the plug on clean energy. While people take President Trump’s threat to repeal clean energy policies seriously, they do not want him to follow through. More than three in four (78%) Americans believe Trump when he says he will repeal policies that deal with climate change and will eliminate clean energy in the United States, including 39% who totally believe him. However, a solid majority (57%) say Donald Trump should NOT repeal climate change policies or cut clean energy investments. Opposition spans demographic groups, including majorities of Americans who in live contested CDs (60%) and independents nationally (58%). There is wide opposition to overturning specific climate and clean energy policies. When presented with simple, clear descriptions of Trump’s potential actions and their impacts, majorities of Americans want Congress to OPPOSE each one. Opposition is strong across the board, including more than six in 10 independents and voters in contested congressional districts. People see through President Trump’s energy agenda and recognize that it serves oil and gas CEOs, not them. By nearly 2:1, the public wants Congress to reject President Trump’s energy agenda.