State’s clean-tech sector: Trump’s moves a ‘symbolic blow’
From the Boston Globe
To the leaders of the Massachusetts clean-tech sector, President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement represented an unfortunate but largely symbolic blow.
The bigger threat, they say, can be found in a recently released federal energy budget that proposes drastic cuts to research funding.
Local clean-tech executives initially held out hope that Trump wouldn’t follow through on his campaign promise to leave the Paris climate accord, a global pact that calls for big reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
The president’s withdrawal, they say, sends a discouraging message to clean-tech entrepreneurs and puts the country at risk of falling behind in the race to develop new renewable technologies. Read more…