How Trump’s Tariffs Threaten the Transition to Cleaner Energy

First came President Trump’s freezing of federal support for many renewable energy projects, coupled with cries of “drill, baby, drill.”Then came the tariffs.The president’s trade war is expected to drive up the costs of nearly every component of clean-energy production in the United States, from the steel blades of wind turbines to the batteries inside electric vehicles.Many of those building blocks are imported…