Trump 100 Days: A Green Review
The first 100 days: No foreseeable impact to solar homeowners in the near future. A couple months ago, we wrote a blog that made some educated guesses about how the solar industry would (or would not) change under the new administration. We surmised that while Trump’s Energy First plan focused on rejuvenating fossil fuels, the renewable energy was not immediately threatened because of its job creation – a cornerstone of President Trumps campaign. We did not directly touch on predicting environmental impact at the time, which is a separate topic itself. However, our original notion that renewable energy sector will not change much. Over the next week or so there will be a litany of reviews and critiques of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. What started out as a mistranslation during FDR’s first term, the first 100 days of a presidency has been a litmus test for a sitting president ever since. While there is a wide base of policies and promises that will be subject to scrutiny, this article will focus on the impact Trump’s first 100 days will have on solar owners and the renewable energy market. These first 100 days began with a whirlwind of executive orders. It seemed that drastic change was on its way, and fast. Shortly after the first week however, the pace of the orders began to taper off and after...
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