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From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang.

A weekly digest on energy, clean tech and the environment. I'm Stephen Lacy.

We're on week seven of the Trump presidency.

For the last four months or so since the election,

we've been stalwart in our views that things are not as bad as they seem.

That despite the contradictions and confrontations

clean energy will emerge unscathed because it is unstoppable.

And that may well be true,

but it's impossible to ignore how quickly Trump's team

has worked to unwind the country's environmental policy.

As more details emerge, it's becoming clear that this is not a team devoted to a traditional conservative approach to environmental protection or a thoughtful redesign of top-down regulation. a by Peter Teal to take Trump seriously, but not take him literally.

It is now time to take him literally.

And that's our topic of conversation to start.

The impending reversal of climate, fuel, and efficiency regulations, new staff with no background in the sectors

their agencies govern, and across the board budget cuts.

And then we're going to shift over to some bellwether business activity in the solar industry.

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