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Opinion: Trump’s war on net-zero will hit his Republican supporters hardest

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Trump sought to rally his climate-skeptic base in America ’s oil-guzzling southern and midwestern states by promising a war on renewable energy and a drastic rollback of the burgeoning green transition.

The problem, for Trump , is that the people he hoped to impress with his climate bashing brouhaha are the very Republicans benefiting most from Biden 's green energy push.

Texas , once synonymous with the oil industry, has emerged as America 's number one clean energy state.