Dems did 'sleight of hand' in midterms, in control of Congress will push green energy agenda: Morano

Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano is predicting that Democrats will try to bring back their climate, green energy agenda now that they have control of Congress, costing taxpayers trillions of dollars. 

Morano, speaking Wednesday from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Turkey, told the Just The News, No Noise TV show that Democrats will push an agenda of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, over fossil fuel, despite saying little, if anything, about such plans, while primarily running on a platform of making life more affordable for Americans.

"They are completely at odds with each other," said Morano, a former Republican political aide. "You cannot have a climate agenda and at the same time have an affordability agenda. I feel like I need to apologize because I had been declaring climate a dead issue."

He also said President Trump has done "so many unbelievably good things, but what's happened here is the greatest sleight of hand in climate history that I've been following for 25 plus years."

The former Senate staffer argued Democrats were forbidden by climate activists from talking on the campaign trail about climate, saying it was mentioned in only 2% of Democratic Senate and House press releases.

"Now you have Al Gore saying the first thing Congress should be doing is climate action," Morano said. "John Kerry says it's a mandate for the climate agenda for green energy."

"They are really going to push this," he continued. "Of course, 2028 is going to be the key year and where that goes with elections. But the Democrats think that, you know, Trump's second term never existed by the way they're acting here."

Rolling back Trump administration changes

Democrats are expected to try to roll back some of the major changes that Trump's second administration has made to U.S. energy policy.

One area they are expected to focus on is restoring the production tax credits for renewable energy, which the One Big Beautiful Bill scheduled to end for facilities put into service after Dec. 31, 2027.

The credits were originally intended to be a temporary program to incentivize the building out of wind and solar farms by providing a federal tax credit per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced. But after more than three decades, new wind and solar farms are still eligible for the tax credits. 

While supporters of such credits say they will bring down electricity rates, critics argue they create a disincentive to produce affordable, reliable energy, undermining the reliability of the country's power grid. 

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.