The New York Times featured Echo Founder and President Chris Moyer on how the clean energy industry needs to build power in DC.
Wealthy Investors Are Targeting Foes of Clean Energy, and They Want Revenge
By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer
March 26, 2026
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The renewable energy industry has struggled to adjust to Mr. Trump’s hostility. Initially, solar executives tried to mimic his language on “energy dominance.” During the debate over the Republican policy bill last year, solar companies tried to warn that cutting subsidies would cost jobs.
Lately, though, the industry has been arguing that throttling solar power will make electricity less affordable, and it’s finding conservatives to make that point.
“The industry is realizing that it’s not just the message, it’s the messengers that matter,” said Chris Moyer, the founder and president of Echo Communications Advisors, a public affairs firm focused on climate policy.
“I think it’s a realization of the raw politics in Washington these days, where a logical argument doesn’t necessarily win the day in a policy fight,” said Mr. Moyer, a onetime aide to Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada Democrat.
By far the most bellicose strategy has been going after Mr. Roy, one of clean energy’s most vocal opponents in Congress.
Every Republican voted for Mr. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but Mr. Roy fought among the hardest to strip away tax credits and incentives for renewable energy that Democrats had passed during the Biden administration. When Mr. Trump signed the measure into law, Mr. Roy boasted that his efforts had helped guarantee that more than 90 percent of planned wind farms, solar arrays, battery factories and other projects would never begin.
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