President Trump has signed the Republican Party’s Big Ugly Bill into law.

Critical clean energy tax credits will be phased out as soon as this September. Programs that support community health and environmental well-being are being defunded, and corporate polluters have been granted even greater permission to drill, mine, and despoil our natural resources while still receiving tax breaks and even more subsidies.

The result will be more intense and frequent climate-fueled disasters, greater public health impacts, and higher energy costs for everyone, not to mention lost jobs, billions in sunk costs, and the loss of America’s competitiveness in the global clean energy market.

It’s about as bad as it gets. Yet what the Trump administration is celebrating is an unprecedented act of self-sabotage—the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory. In its sheer awfulness, we perceive the seeds of its undoing.

In their unwavering loyalty to President Trump, Republicans decided to overlook one obvious fact: Americans who hate the bill outnumber those who like it by a large margin, and their ranks will be swelled as people begin to feel the impact in their pocketbooks, healthcare, and job prospects. Flipping the House and Senate will be much easier than if the Republicans had passed a less awful bill.

The public doesn’t support legislation that will add $3.2 trillion to the deficit while slashing critical Medicaid and food stamp programs and giving tax breaks to wealthy people and corporations. Even members of Trump’s own base have been left feeling betrayed by the president. – The New Republic

The backlash has already begun.

States have already been stepping up their climate game in the background, from updated incentives for solar in Massachusetts to Oregon’s recently passed climate change education requirement. Just look at the League of Conservation Voters’ good news roundup from last month.

While it faces setbacks in the U.S., the global climate movement is winning. Most major countries are embracing the clean energy transition, along with its economic and environmental benefits. Clean energy is no longer an alternative – it’s the clear winner. Fossil fuels are on their way out. The Trump administration is only delaying the inevitable.

So let the fossil fuel industry pop their champagne—this will be their last big party. What matters now is doing what we can! Remember:

Action is the antidote to despair!