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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy

  • Written by Daniel Cohan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
imageCongress passed Donald Trump's tax and spending bill on July 3, 2025.Kevin Carter/Getty Images

When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they could have pruned wasteful subsidies while sparing the rest. Instead, they did the reverse. Americans will pay the price with...

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