In less than three weeks, President Trump has thrown the U.S. clean energy industry into chaosagente777, with much of the economic damage hitting Republican states and districts.

In a quest to eliminate any funding linked to climate change, the Trump administration has frozen federal grants for everything from battery factories to electric school buses and issued executive orders that have halted federal approvals for wind and solar projects.

Mr. Trump and Republicans in Congress are also working to repeal the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which is projected to pour hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade into low-carbon energy technologies through tax credits, loans and grants.

So far, Republican-voting communities have benefited the most from that law. In the nearly three years since it was passed, private companies chasing the law’s tax breaks have announced plans to spend $165.8 billion to build factories that make solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and more, according to new data from Atlas Public Policy, a research firm. Roughly 80 percent of those investments are in Republican congressional districts, where they are creating a once-in-a-generation manufacturing boom.

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Announced investments since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, by congressional district

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Source: The Clean Economy Tracker by Atlas Public Policy and Utah State University

In that agreement, the 2015 Paris accord, they promised to act and acknowledged a bare truth: Climate change threatens all of us, and we owe it to each other to slow it down. Countries agreed to nudge each other to raise their climate ambitions every few years, and the industrialized nations of the world — which had prospered from the burning of coal, oil and gas — said they would help the rest of the world prosper without burning down the planet.

On Friday, in a Brooklyn federal court, Mr. Bazzi, 60, acknowledged trying to evade those sanctions by using a fake franchise agreement to obtain money from restaurants in Michigan in which he had a secret ownership stake. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to conduct unlawful transactions involving a specially designated global terrorist.

Note: Map does not show $2.4 billion where the congressional district is unknown. Florida’s First District is vacant.

By Harry Stevens/The New York Times

The Inflation Reduction Act, along with a separate 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, also provided tens of billions of dollars in grants that have since been awarded by the federal government to private companies, states and nonprofit organizations. These are legally binding obligations that have allowed companies to make investments, sign leases and hire workers, with the expectation that they would be reimbursed by the government.

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