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A $30 Billion Meltdown in Clean Energy Puts Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk
America’s path to net-zero carbon emissions is getting narrower.
A wind turbine under construction in Encino, New Mexico.
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No one expected the transition from fossil fuels to be easy. But a year after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law promised billions of dollars for America’s switch to clean energy, some of the nation’s most ambitious renewable power projects have been shelved, electric car sales are missing targets and investors are fleeing the sector in droves.
The result is a $30 billion collapse in US clean energy stocks in the last six months—a market many investors expected to flourish in the aftermath of the law’s passage.