Overview
- On Friday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and Jeff Merkley published agency replies and a Climate Power analysis citing an 11% increase in electricity prices since President Trump took office.
- The analysis projects more than $70 billion in additional household utility costs over the next three years.
- It attributes higher prices to actions such as rolling back support for wind and solar, imposing fossil fuel plant mandates, and tariffs that raise transmission material costs, estimating lost supply for over 12 million homes and clean‑energy job losses approaching 300,000.
- The senators said the Energy and Interior departments did not respond to their questions, and the U.S. Trade Representative reported conducting no specific analyses of energy pricing impacts.
- The White House rejected the criticism and blamed Democratic energy policies, while the senators urged restoring project funding and preserving LIHEAP and Energy Star before winter heating bills rise.