US President Donald Trump’s government, known for its challenges on renewable energy, announced yesterday (7.8.2025) that it is terminating federal state subsidies program for the installation. photovoltaic Frames on the ceilings of hundreds of thousands of US households, especially in degraded areas.
In the context of the Inflation Reduction Act, a text promoted by the government of democratic former President Joe Biden in 2022, partly dedicated to climate protection, a program of support for photovoltaic frameworks was created, which was expected to benefit more than 900,000 families.
But the funds that had been distributed for it were canceled, under the huge Donald Trump fiscal law approved by Congress in July, Lee Zeldin, head of the Federal Environmental Protection Service (EPA), said yesterday. He added via X (formerly Twitter) that this subsidy program is being abolished.
Zeldin also denounced the program’s “ineffectiveness” because of the many “intermediaries” between the federal state and the beneficiaries.
By estimates by the Atlas Public Policy Study Center, just $ 53 million was spent by the $ 7 billion originally foreseen.
“Donald Trump wants to kill this measure illegally to protect his friends’ shameless profits in the oil and gas industry,” Senator Bernie Sanders, who had suggested the program, said in a statement.
Donald Trump’s government since January has taken measures that cancel subsidies in renewable energy projects and facilitated exploration and hydrocarbon mining.
Yet, plans to put an end to adjustments for gas emissions that cause the greenhouse effect And he published a recent report that considered that climate change could prove to be benefits.