Green subsidies will probably survive Mr Trump’s re-election, and Big Oil will probably do just fine under Ms Harris T he next president will inherit the most ambitious climate policies in American history. Under Joe Biden a trio of laws—the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and especially the Inflation Reduction Act ( IRA )—have put in place a sweeping industrial policy that seeks to subsidise an ambitious decarbonisation of the economy. Left-wingers, who think the investments are not ambitious enough, hope that a President Kamala Harris will go further.
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Green subsidies will probably survive Mr Trump’s re-election, and Big Oil will probably do just fine under Ms Harris