Trump digs in as world goes green

Britain’s last coal-burning power plant, which closed in September, looms over a local resident working in his garden in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, England. — ©2025 The New York Times Company

PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s repudiation of renewable-energy technologies stands to make the United States an outlier in the world.

Many of its large-economy peers are choosing a different path. Even as coal, oil and gas still power the global economy, and more fossil fuels are burned year after year, the movement globally is toward heavy investment in solar, wind and batteries, the prices of which have fallen sharply in recent years.