The Trump administration is dismantling two major Energy Department offices responsible for billions in clean energy funding, accelerating its rollback of Biden-era climate initiatives, The Wall Street Journal writes. 

The DOE will eliminate the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, following earlier moves to cancel or cut more than $30 billion for hydrogen, battery storage, grid upgrades, EVs and carbon capture projects. 

Many awards—often located in Democratic-led states—were terminated, but Republican states with large wind sectors are also losing funding. The changes put thousands of jobs at risk and have prompted the International Energy Agency to slash its forecast for U.S. renewable energy growth.

DOE says the restructuring restores “common sense” to energy policy, though it remains unclear whether any functions will be reassigned internally.

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