The battle for American energy supremacy.

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The US energy system has arguably never faced such an existential crossroads. Renewable generation sources like hydropower, wind and solar, backed up by battery energy storage are already proving to be the quickest and cheapest way to add huge amounts of additional power to the US grid. But the incumbents of the fossil fuel industry and their political puppets simply do not want to get out of the way. So, as the rest of the world accelerates towards the inevitable clean transition, will America really allow itself to fall behind? Help support this channel's independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com Reference Links: US Climate Alliance https://usclimatealliance.org/ Carbon Brief - Factcheck : Trump's climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factcheck/index.html New Scientist - debunk of US Administration CO2 claims https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490579-us-says-co2-emissions-arent-harmful-climate-science-shows-otherwise/ Earth Justice - A legal analysis of the Trump EPA's plan to revoke the Endangerment Finding https://earthjustice.org/experts/hana-vizcarra/a-legal-analysis-of-the-trump-epas-plan-to-revoke-the-endangerment-finding Governing.com : US Renewables growth in 2024 https://www.governing.com/resilience/in-2024-more-electricity-than-ever-came-from-renewable-sources EMBER - US Energy Data explorer https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data-explorer US Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/state/data.php Report on California ACT progress https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/zev-forward Ken Johnson - Caveats to California and Oregon https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/27/oregon-should-bypass-californias-stalled-clean-trucks-program-and-steer-its-own-into-the-fast-lane/ Brookings Institution - list of actions against Federal government https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-regulatory-changes-in-the-second-trump-administration/ Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators Simon Clark: youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys ClimateTown: youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Dr Gilbz youtube.com/@DrGilbz zentouro: youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience Sarah Karvner: youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ Our Changing Climate : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ