From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, July 8th.

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 Biden era 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 sunsetsing 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 they're certainly

more cost competitive than coal, but by removing the subsidies, it's just going to slow down the

additions at a time which power demand is actually surging, and then we're going to have to run

more fossil fuel power to make up the difference. From a consumer standpoint, what about the listeners out there who are on the fence about

getting a solar panel put on their roof?

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