Trump’s War on Clean Energy Already Destroyed or Threatened 62,000 American Jobs, With Nearly 400,000 at Risk

Washington, D.C. – In just 100 days in office, President Trump’s tariffs, executive orders, and all-out assault on clean energy have significantly reversed the clean energy manufacturing and jobs boom from the last two years. New data released today from Climate Power shows that across all clean energy companies, 95 clean energy projects have been threatened, delayed, or canceled, representing $71.24 billion in investment and 62,554 jobs. On top of that, hundreds of thousands more jobs are at risk as economic uncertainty around federal investments drives more companies to delay, reconsider, or reverse investment in the United States. 

“Trump’s war on clean energy and his chaotic policies have already caused a hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs in sectors that had been booming for two years,” said Lori Lodes, Executive Director of Climate Power. “Repealing clean energy investments would jeopardize hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs on its own. On top of this crisis of uncertainty, repeal would devastate American manufacturing — halting construction, sending jobs overseas, hiking energy costs, and forfeiting the future to China and our other competitors.”

“The manufacturing incentives that we enacted have supercharged economic development in Georgia, driving billions of dollars of private investment from electric vehicle manufacturing to semiconductor manufacturing, advanced energy, and solar energy manufacturing. It would be a betrayal of the state of Georgia to vote against our state’s economic interests and to put all of that economic development at risk,” said U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff.

Prior to Trump’s election, the United States had seen the largest boom in factory construction investment in American history, spurred in large part by the 2022 clean energy tax credits. Since the tax credits were established, clean energy companies announced more than 400,000 new jobs, primarily in manufacturing. However, since the beginning of the Trump administration, that growth has gone into reverse, falling from 406,000 new clean energy jobs created from August 2022 to December 2024, to 399,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2025. Atlas Public Policy found that a record number of clean manufacturing projects were cancelled in Q1 of 2025, and the record level of factory construction investment driven by clean energy through 2023 and 2024 has already turned down sharply under Trump. 

The manufacturing losses from these early actions will only grow, but those remaining 399,000 jobs are at even greater risk from a legislative agenda that could roll back the clean energy tax credits entirely, through a phased-out repeal, or other attempts to sabotage their implementation. Some of the states already significantly affected by Trump’s tariffs and war on clean energy, and those that stand to lose the most if the clean energy tax credits are repealed include Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, Arizona, and North Carolina, among others. 

View the full report here, including analysis on the states and congressional districts most affected by Trump and congressional Republicans’ war on clean energy.