Climate Politics

What Democrats Can Learn From the Trump Energy Playbook

Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to take more aggressive actions on clean energy, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.

Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit in San Francisco.

Photographer: Randall Gee

President Donald Trump’s scorched-earth approach toward renewable energy can offer inspiration for a future Democratic administration looking to retake the initiative to cut emissions, according to Jennifer Granholm, energy secretary under former President Joe Biden.

In other words, she said Monday at a BloombergNEF summit in San Francisco, “don't be afraid to break some eggs.”