Alaska residents fear rising energy costs as Trump seeks to drill

For people living in tiny fishing towns in Alaska, boosting wind and solar power would help lower exorbitant electricity prices, but this solution to high costs is under threat now that the government is cutting federal funding for renewable energy. Alaskans pay nearly twice as much for electricity than the national average. "It would definitely hurt the community to be forced to pay higher energy prices," said Matt Goodnow, a resident and financial counselor for a hospital in Homer, a fishing town on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. "There are a lot of struggling people here," he said. Not only is President Donald Trump's administration planning to phase out federal funding and tax breaks for renewable energy projects, but it is proposing...