BREAKING: Over 100 Workers Laid Off At Michigan Battery Manufacturer

Auburn Hills, MI – Fox 2 Detroit reported that over 100 employees at Dana Incorporated, an EV battery component manufacturer in Auburn Hills, Michigan, have been laid off. Donald Trump’s war on clean energy is sending good-paying jobs overseas and making electric vehicles more expensive to buy. Meanwhile,Chinese electric vehicle sales are “booming.” Donald Trump and Republicans’ efforts to gut clean energy have come at the direct expense of American workers and consumers. 

This is the third time in two months that clean energy manufacturing jobs in Michigan have been put on hold or canceled. 

“Trump and Congressional Republicans have shut down the federal government and their shortsighted energy policies are shuttering manufacturing across the country,” said Climate Power Communications Director Alex Glass. “For the third time in two months, Michiganders are being laid off because Trump would rather take cheaper, cleaner energy options offline and give the competitive edge to China than upset his billionaire donors. The price of the Republican energy crisis is simply too high for American families to afford.”

Trump’s reckless energy policies are killing clean energy projects across the country:

• Just last week, Crain’s Detroit Business reported that General Motors was canceling a $55 million factory that would have created 300 jobs, citing “decisions of the DOE”. 

• Last month, Fortescue blamed U.S. “policy settings” and the elimination of “critical tax credits” in Trump and Republicans’ budget bill for the cancellation of their $210 million Detroit EV battery factory. 

• Trump is using the government shutdown as an opportunity to sow even more chaos and uncertainty for American workers by cancelling $8 billion in investments in states that did not vote for him. The Trump administration has put $24 billion for energy projects on the chopping block since May. 

• According to Climate Power’s Energy Crisis Snapshot report and tracker, more than 80,500 clean energy jobs have already been lost or delayed under the Trump administration, 47% of which are in congressional districts represented by Republicans. 

• 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. 

• Blue Ridge Power blamed insurmountable “market headwinds” impacting the renewable energy industry for their decision to lay off 517 workers in North Carolina 

• 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.