Brian Ler on WNYC, now we turn to our Health and Climate Tuesdays section of the show, an ongoing feature here.

In addition to the cuts to health care and food assistance programs,

President Donald Trump's so-called one big beautiful bill act or his big budget and policy

bill to not just put it in his own marquee language, acts as several Bidenera clean energy incentives and instead further subsidizes

the oil and gas industry.

Leading up to the bill's passage, several research firms projected that the Republicans'

mega bill will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely set the country's climate goals

further out of reach.

Of course, they may be declaring the old climate goals, counterproductive and irrelevant,

but joining us now to break down some of what's in the over 1,000-page megabill for how it will

impact both green energy initiatives and greenhouse gas emissions overall, is Zach Coleman,

climate and energy reporter for Politico.

Zach, thanks for coming on again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Happy to be here.

I'll start with a specific.

What's happening to clean energy initiatives under this bill? What will

happen to wind and solar projects in particular? Well, look, the bill is basically sunsetting

a bunch of incentives that make it cheaper to build wind and solar projects in the United States.

Now, these are projects that have accounted for the bulk of new additions to the electric grid in the past year, past several years, in fact.

So what it's going to do is it's not going to stop wind and solar altogether, but it's going to slow down the addition of these power sources and actually raise the cost by removing these

subsidies these technologies are pretty cost competitive with natural gas and there's certainly more

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