Federal politics strand regional clean‑industry

National political campaigns and regulatory interventions can directly strand state and local clean‑energy investments, turning newly built ports, factories and training pipelines into sunk assets and unemployed workforces. The effect is not only lost jobs but a reputational hit that discourages future private and public investment in decarbonization supply chains. — Shows that energy transitions require not only technology and money but political stability — otherwise federal politics can reverse regional industrial gains and waste public capital.