Trump Is Canceling $3.7 Billion in Clean Energy Projects

Hydrogen tanks in a storage area at a nuclear station in Scriba, New York.

Photographer: Lauren Petracca/Bloomberg

The Energy Department is canceling some $3.7 billion in government support for clean energy projects it said did not warrant continued backing from the Trump administration.

The agency said the move came after it found the projects “failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars.”