The labor and environmental coalition BlueGreen Alliance released an analysis on Tuesday concluding that federal policy shifts have been linked to the cancellation or delay of hundreds of manufacturing and clean energy projects totaling $82.9 billion in planned investment.
The report, made public ahead of meetings between labor leaders and U.S. senators on the clean energy workforce, identified 223 projects that have either stalled or been canceled during the president's second term, affecting an estimated 111,765 jobs.
BlueGreen Alliance attributed those project disruptions to a signature tax and spending package that repealed or curtailed incentives enacted under the previous administration, along with other actions taken by the administration to reduce federal support for renewable energy and electric vehicles.
"The resulting figures clearly illustrate the staggering loss of investment and job creation that the policies of this administration and Congress have brought about," Roxanne Johnson, BlueGreen Alliance’s vice president of research, said in a statement.
The report notes public comments from the president asserting that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are unreliable and receive unfair subsidies. It also details changes that the report says have weakened protections for workers in energy and industrial sectors following federal funding cuts and regulatory rollbacks initiated in 2025.
Among the regulatory changes cited in the analysis were rollbacks of Environmental Protection Agency rules applying to hazardous industries, and a delay to a silica exposure rule intended to protect coal miners from inhaling silica dust. The report warned that the silica rule delay could contribute to a resurgence of black lung disease.
In a separate finding, the BlueGreen Alliance said that 3,034 manufacturing, energy and industrial projects now face stricter tax credit eligibility requirements under the administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The coalition estimated that those tightened standards put approximately $695.2 billion in investment and nearly 1.2 million projected jobs at risk.
Context and implications - The coalition framed the analysis as evidence of a broader retreat by the federal government from supports that had underpinned clean energy and related manufacturing investments. Labor leaders planned to raise workforce concerns with senators on the same day the report was published.
The report itself presents figures and program links but does not assign legal or financial outcomes beyond the projects and job estimates it documents. Where specifics were not detailed in the analysis, the report reflects those limits rather than asserting outcomes beyond its scope.