Though Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act sunsetted the tax incentives supporting clean energy development, some projects already in the works have still been able to take advantage of them — provided that developers “have already hit certain construction benchmarks,” according to Canary Media. The outlet also reported that “more than 90% of the power plants brought online in America in 2025 were solar, wind, or battery farms,” and the Energy Information Administration expects “clean resources will account for 93% of new additions to the power grid” in 2026.

This new wind and solar capacity helped the grid meet record-high demand during the anniversary period, when a heat wave pushed electricity demand to new highs. Solar supplied more than 30% of Texas’ record-high July peak, while new offshore wind helped New England burn less oil than it had during a comparable heat wave last year.

That near-term resilience in part reflects projects that were already in the pipeline before the OBBBA’s passage. However, by restricting the tax credits that supported renewables, the bill has weakened the future outlook for clean energy. A July 2026 report from MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research found that restricting the credits will contribute to “higher energy prices, project cancellations, job losses, and less energy added to the grid.” And, according to Axios, BloombergNEF has cut its forecast for new wind capacity through 2035 by 42% from its pre-OBBBA outlook and has also reduced its solar forecast.

Fox News and Fox Business each aired 5 segments around the One Big Beautiful Bill’s anniversary period, from June 28 through July 12, for a total of 10 segments. Of those 10, 7 segments failed to mention the law’s climate or energy provisions, while 3 segments briefly referenced the elimination of Biden-era clean energy subsidies without examining how this affected electricity supply or pricing. During the June 28 episode of Fox News Live, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said that the law replaced “green new scam” subsidies. And, during the June 30 episode of Fox Business’ Kudlow, conservative economist Stephen Moore bragged, “We got rid of the Green New Deal.”

The remaining segment aired during the July 10 episode of Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria. Republican strategist Chris Jackson noted, “We got rid of a lot of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits, but we have not seen a slowdown in clean energy growth.” He credited the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s permitting agenda for energy abundance while treating continued clean energy growth as evidence that repealing Biden-era tax credits had not harmed the energy landscape. But he ignored how much that growth is still being carried by the IRA-era project pipeline, remaining clean energy policy, and market momentum that Fox spent years dismissing as a costly “Green New Deal.”  

In contrast to the few climate and energy mentions Fox made during its OBBBA coverage, the network made energy policy central when covering the Inflation Reduction Act. During the two-week window around the IRA’s first anniversary, August 9 through August 23, 2023, Fox News mentioned the law 153 times, while its climate and energy provisions got 25 mentions. Fox’s coverage has frequently attacked the law using false and misleading claims.

By not applying the same scrutiny to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Fox is ignoring how the Trump administration has made new wind and solar projects harder to build and reduced the energy available to meet rising demand. This will allow the network to continue to blame future price increases and grid strain on climate and clean energy policies rather than on the law that is constraining new supply. As a result, viewers will be less equipped to understand rising bills, assess threats to grid reliability, or hold accountable the officials who shaped those outcomes.

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on Fox News Channel and Fox Business for the terms “Big Beautiful Bill” or “One Big Beautiful Bill,” or any of the terms “Trump,” “Republican,” or “GOP” within close proximity to either of the terms “tax” or “spend” and any of the terms “bill,” “law,” “legislation,” or “act” from June 28, 2026, the week before the one year anniversary of President Donald Trump signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, through July 11, 2026, the week after the OBBBA's one-year anniversary.

We identified segments, which we defined as instances when the “Big Beautiful Bill” was the stated topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of the bill. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed the budget bill with one another.

We did not include mentions, which we defined as instances when a single speaker in a segment on another topics mentioned the budget bill without another speaker engaging with the comment, and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about the bill scheduled to air later in the broadcast.

We then reviewed segments for mentions of the bill’s climate and energy provisions.