President Donald Trump’s attempt to create U.S. jobs by taxing solar panel imports could backfire.
That’s according to the CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association trade group, who says it’s domestic workers that will feel the pain.
“We have been the fastest growing form of new energy...and this is putting the brakes on that crazy growth,” Abigail Ross Hopper told Cheddar in an interview. “These are not people who are looking for what nationality the company they work for is. They just want to feed their families and pay their mortgages. And those are the people whose jobs are at risk.”
Earlier this week President Trump signed a law that would impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panel and sells, a move the administration says will encourage domestic manufacturing.
But the SEIA says the vast majority of the 260,000 Americans employed in the industry work in peripheral industries like installation. Ross Hopper says the bill will result in 23,000 layoffs this year and delay or cancel billions of dollars of investment in the sector.
She also says it might dissuade U.S. consumers from going green.
“Most [businesses and consumers] want to choose solar because it saves them money,” she said. “This decision changes that calculus.”
For full interview [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/solar-power-in-america).
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Cannabis may have just been made legal in Canada, but Canopy Growth has been getting ready for this moment for years. Cheddar's Baker Machado went to the company's headquarters in eastern Ontario to talk to the company's execs about the budding cannabis market.
Derek Riedle, the CEO of cannabis culture publisher Civilized, spoke with Cheddar about what is next in the changing landscape of pot in Canada and what breaking down the stigma surrounding marijuana could do for the industry and country as a whole.
Recreational pot went legal across Canada at midnight on Wednesday, but that doesn't mean everyone was able to get their hands on bud right away. Baker Machado takes a province-by-province look at what it'll take to smoke up and how Canada's journey could inform the U.S.
Jodie Emery, editor-in-chief of Cannabis Culture, said activists are celebrating Canada's legalization of cannabis but they aren't done fighting. The next battle in Canada will be granting amnesty to people convicted of non-violent marijuana charges, Emery said.
Comedians Anthony Atamanuik and Adam Pally are the faces of the new Comedy Central 'mockumentary' special, "The President Show." They discuss their method of observing President Trump.
Canada legalized recreational marijuana use on Wednesday, making it the second country to do so. Netflix stock is surging after the streaming giant added a record number of subscribers in the third quarter. Plus, Anthony Atamanuik and Adam Pally from Comedy Central's 'The President Show' join Cheddar to talk about their new special 'The Fall Of Donald Trump.'
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Cheddar went to Montréal to get an up close look at the cannabis legalization effort, which begins Wednesday across Canada.
Washington, D.C., delayed the final vote on a bill that would severely limit operations for home-sharing companies like Airbnb and VRBO in the nation's capital in a surprise move by the D.C. Council Tuesday afternoon. The proposed regulations would ban short-term rentals of secondary properties in D.C. and put a 90-day cap on Washingtonians renting out rooms in their primary residences.
