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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Seth Borenstein and Amanda Swinhart

Climate activist predicts high electricity prices and Trump's attacks on green energy will hurt GOP

Climate Activist Green Energy - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

At a time when the Trump administration rolled back numerous environmental regulations while global temperatures and U.S. carbon pollution spiked, longtime climate activist Bill McKibben finds hope in something that didn't seem that strong on a recent single-digit-temperature day: the sun.

That sun has provided him cheap power for 25 years, and this month he installed his fourth iteration of solar panels on his Vermont home. In an interview after he set up the new system, he said President Donald Trump's stance against solar and other cheap green energy will hurt the GOP in this year's elections as electricity bills rise.

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