Trump’s War on Clean Energy Kills Michigan Battery Company, Canceling 600 Jobs
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Washington, D.C. — Trump’s reckless energy policies, which are killing jobs and raising utility costs, have claimed their latest casualty in Michigan. Fortescue canceled its planned $210 million EV battery factory in Detroit, which would have created 600 jobs. The company blamed the factory cancellation on U.S. “policy settings” and the elimination of “critical tax credits” in Trump and Republicans’ budget bill. The announcement came days after Trump’s policies contributed to a battery startup, Natron Energy, shutting down and laying off 37 employees at their manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan. Trump’s attacks on clean energy have already canceled or delayed more than 64,000 clean energy jobs since his election.
“This factory would have created good-paying jobs for hundreds of Michiganders and ensure Michigan continues to lead the world in manufacturing. Instead, Donald Trump and his GOP allies are keeping good on their promises to billionaire oil and gas donors rather than their promises to the American people,” said Climate Power senior advisor Jesse Lee. “Trump has overseen a manufacturing bloodbath with 78,000 manufacturing jobs lost already, and factory closures like this one will become more and more common as Donald Trump continues to escalate his petty vendetta against clean energy. He is betraying his own voters, sending a whole generation of good-paying jobs overseas, and leaving them nothing but higher utility bills to show for it.”
Trump’s reckless energy policies are killing clean energy projects across the country:
- Trump’s federal energy policies contributed to battery startup, Natron Energy, shutting down and canceling its planned $1.4 billion factory in Eastern North Carolina, which would have created 1,000 jobs.
- Trump halted construction of a nearly completed $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island, which would have powered 350,000 households in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
- Trump planned to revoke federal permitting for a Maryland wind farm, which would have powered 718,000 homes and supported more than 1,300 jobs.