ABC News reports that the White House administration is moving to cancel $8 billion in funding for programs that Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought says “fuel the Left’s climate agenda.”

Sixteen states that did not vote for President Donald Trump in the presidential election will be directly targeted. These states also all have at least one democratic senator voting against a clean continuing resolution to fund the government.

While Mr. Vought declared on X that more details would come from the Department of Energy, an official statement has yet to be released.

As reported previously in Combustion Industry News, on July 4 of this year, the bill popularly known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” was signed into law by President Trump, effectively repealing the majority of the clean energy investment incentives introduced under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The IRA allocated about $370 billion in tax credits to renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. These included the investment tax credit and production tax credit for solar and wind projects several years ahead of schedule, and EV tax credits of up to $7,500 which were previously scheduled to last through 2032.

In June, the Department of Energy cancelled CCS and decarbonisation projects worth $3.7bn. According to an article published in Power Engineering International quoting Bloomberg, these included “$331 million allocated to Exxon Mobil for a hydrogen project at its Baytown, Texas refinery; $170 million to Kraft Heinz for several clean energy developments; $500 million to Heidelberg Materials for a low-carbon cement project; $375 million to Eastman Chemical for its molecular recycling facility in Longview, Texas; and $270 million to Calpine subsidiaries for carbon capture projects in Baytown, Texas, and near Yuba City, California.”

In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which had been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. According to an ABC report, many climate scientists have criticized the EPA effort as biased and misleading.