Exposing Trump’s Dirty Scheme to Raise Your Energy Bills

Environment and Public Works: Senate Committee · March 18, 2026

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Leader Schumer opening and critique of administration energy policy

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Senate Majority Leader Schumer opened by thanking staff and advocates, released a report alleging the Trump administration has driven up energy costs by blocking wind and solar and favoring fossil fuel interests, and accused the administration of acting for big-oil donors rather than households.

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A Senate Environment and Public Works roundtable where Democratic senators and energy advocates argued that recent Trump administration actions—stop-work orders for offshore wind and expanded use of DOE emergency authority under Section 202(c)—are raising electricity costs and harming clean-energy deployment; advocates described economic, health and tribal impacts and outlined policy fixes.

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