ROUND UP: Five Clean Energy Projects Laid Off Workers or Shuttered Their Doors in Last Two Weeks Thanks to Trump and Republicans

Trump’s war on clean energy has canceled or stalled 167,386 clean energy jobs – sending jobs overseas and hiking up utility costs by 13%. 

Washington, DC – As millions of Americans dig out of a massive winter storm, Trump’s reckless energy policies are continuing to shutter clean energy projects that would have brought more energy on to the grid and lowered utility bills. In just the last two weeks, five clean energy projects have laid off workers or canceled plans thanks to Trump and Republicans’ war on clean energy. 

Tomorrow, Trump will head to Iowa to desperately spin his abysmal economic record, but utility costs in the Hawkeye state have jumped 12% under his watch. Instead of focusing on making energy costs more affordable, Trump has escalated his vendetta against one of Iowa’s primary sources of electricity by waging an all-out war on wind energy throughout his second term. 

Michigan 

• Our Next Energy laid off 29 employees in Novi, Michigan, attributing the closures to the unexpected cancellation of a contract with its largest EV customer. 

Tennessee

• Linamar, an electric vehicle parts manufacturer, announced it would permanently close its Shelbyville, Tennessee, location, laying off 80 workers starting in July 2026. 

California 

• Battery power storage company Pioneer Custom Electrical Products, LLC laid off 47 workers from its Sante Fe Springs, CA facility

Rhode Island

• EaglePicher announced it would lay off 38 employees in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, beginning in March 2026. EaglePicher manufactured specialty battery technologies. 

Trump’s reckless energy policies are leaving a trail of shuttered projects across the country:

• An electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky closed its doors in December 2025, killing 1,600 jobs.

• A battery plant canceled a project in Missouri, citing “regulatory changes”, killing 1,000 jobs. 

• Leading Light Wind pulled the plug on construction of an offshore wind project in New Jersey that would have generated enough electricity to power a million homes. 

• A solar firm in North Carolina laid off 78% of its workforce after filing for bankruptcy due to renewable energy policy changes under the Trump administration.  

• QCells, a solar manufacturing plant in Georgia, announced that it would be furloughing 1,000 workers and permanently laying off an additional 300.

• In just two months, seven clean energy projects were closed in Michigan, including General Motors laying off 1,200 workers at its electric vehicle plant in Detroit, along with hundreds of additional permanent and temporary layoffs at battery plants in Ohio and Tennessee.  

• In October, Topsoe cited the repeal of clean energy tax credits as a reason for canceling 150 jobs and a $400 million investment in their Richmond, Virginia facility. 

• In October, Fox 2 Detroit reported that over 100 employees at Dana Incorporated, an electric vehicle battery component manufacturer in Auburn Hills, Michigan, had been laid off.

• General Motors canceled a $55 million factory that would have created 300 jobs, citing “decisions of the DOE”.