Inc.: "The Government Wants These Clean Tech Companies to Die. Their Founders Say: Not So Fast"

Columbia Business School climate economist Gernot Wagner characterizes the Biden-era DOE as making a “good faith, rational” effort—if not a perfect one—to fund investments that maximize societal benefit and minimize costs. One example of that is policies that make polluting more expensive.

“At the moment, what we see is erratic and vindictive,” he says, adding that many of the climate-related projects losing funding under Trump have the potential to deliver on the administration’s stated goals of promoting domestic manufacturing, infrastructure development, energy independence, and job growth.