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Trump can't stop America's shift to clean energy. And we can accelerate it.

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Trump can't stop America's shift to clean energy. And we can accelerate it.
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Donald Trump cannot make clean energy expensive again. He can only make Americans pay extra for it. His tariffs do just that. But cost declines work like a ratchet. Every solar factory built and every panel installed pushes costs down the curve. The global price floor just keeps falling. Which means that despite Trump's best efforts to prop up fossil fuels, America will transform its electricity system. The question is how fast. And that speed is up to us.Since 2015, most of the new power built

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