President-elect Donald Trump made no secret during his campaigning that he doesn’t think the U.S. should take an aggressive stance on climate change. From leading chants of “drill, baby, drill” to frequently criticizing everything from wind turbines to electric vehicles, he appears poised to cast a shadow over the climate tech sector for the next four years.
Or will he?
Like many of Trump’s positions, it’s hard to pinpoint his exact stance on climate change and technologies that serve to mitigate or adapt to it. What’s more, some of his proposed policies might stand to benefit climate tech broadly, even as they prop up oil and gas.
“If you deregulate and you ‘drill, baby, drill,’ you can get more natural gas and oil. You can also get heat like geothermal. You can potentially get geologic hydrogen,” Leonardo Banchik, investment director at Voyager Ventures, told TechCrunch.
Banchik and other climate tech investors are cautiously optimistic that policy changes being conside
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