ROUND UP: Three Manufacturing Projects Laid Off 1,337 Workers Last Week Thanks to Trump’s War on Clean Energy 

Trump and Republicans have taken a sledgehammer to homegrown clean energy projects that protect consumers from oil shocks 

Under Trump’s watch, 358 clean energy projects have canceled new projects, delayed new investments, laid off workers, or lost federal funding

Washington, DC – As Americans face skyrocketing prices at the pump thanks to Trump’s war in Iran, the GOP’s war against homegrown clean energy is already making life more expensive. Just last week, three clean energy projects announced layoffs, including SK Battery Inc. in Georgia, canceling more than 1,300 good-paying jobs. These layoffs represent a policy choice by Trump and Republicans to destroy American clean energy manufacturing, unfolding as jobs reports get increasingly dismal.

Republican lawmakers sided with Trump when they voted to kill the electric vehicle (EV) industry in their budget bill, stripping Americans of their choice in vehicles. Now, Trump is leaving American families to pay the price for a dangerous and costly war that is causing gas prices to skyrocket to multi-year highs. 

Georgia 

• SK Battery Inc. laid off 1,000 workers at their $2.6 billion battery plant in Commerce, Georgia. The region was once a major beneficiary of the EV boom following the $7,500 EV tax credit that Trump and Republicans ended. 

California

• Lucid Motors, which sells EVs, is laying off 319 employees.

Washington 

• Doosan GridTech, a battery storage company, is laying off 18 employees.

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

• Enphase Energy, a solar energy company, announced it would lay off about 6% of its workforce, around 160 employees, as part of its restructuring because of the cancellation of clean energy tax credits. 
• Our Next Energy, an electric vehicle manufacturing plant, laid off 29 employees at their Detroit plant. 
• An electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky closed its doors in December 2025, killing 1,600 workers.
• 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”.