No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries. And few towns have more to lose than Cartersville. Some local Republicans oppose the cuts, but high-ranking Georgia Republicans have been publicly silent.
Georgia continues to lead the nation in the growth of clean energy transition related jobs. The federal spending spurring that growth is a likely target of the new Trump administration.
Europe wants clean energy, but it's struggling to compete with the low cost of China's green technology. The E.U. just announced it's investigating the subsidies received by Chinese wind turbine suppliers, which play a part in those low costs.
On today's episode, we speak with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, about how the E.U. is trying to build and maintain a competitive green tech industry in the face of low-price Chinese imports. And we ask how the U.S.'s climate industrial policy fits into all this action.
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