Germany’s energiewende is costing consumers 28 billion euros every year, and the country’s poor are feeling that pinch most keenly.

The environmental and economic costs of Germany’s decision to shut down its nuclear reactors are growing.

Europe’s industrial titans are decrying the continent’s green-over-growth energy policies. By choosing to see cheap energy and a healthy environment as mutually exclusive goals, Europe is hamstringing its own economic recovery and doing nothing for the planet.

The great irony of Germany’s energiewende—its recent “green” energy transformation—has been a sudden revival of the country’s coal industry. The energy imperative to get that coal out of the ground may bring about the razing of entire villages as a kind of collateral damage.

EU industries pay double what their American counterparts pay for electricity, and the International Energy Agency is warning that this is not a one-off phenomenon. Green policies are an anchor around Europe’s economies.