Noted among this editorial is the push by China toward clean, renewable energy. One common defense of doing little to nothing in the United States has been that China is doing little to nothing. So now, do the people who used that argument think that since China has ambitious plans that we should have ambitious plans? I doubt it.
Another argument is that to achieve renewable goals we have to go back to living in caves. No cars. Cold houses. Warm beer. Of course, none of that is true. What is true is that there are huge benefits from investments in energy savings as Ging notes below. Yet Trump has sought to eviscerate programs that push efficiency. 
As much as we need to provide energy saving options for the disadvantaged, the fact is most low-income have a very low energy footprint compared to the well-off who use energy with abandon. And yet these people have the money to buy things like solar panels and the tax credit to offset the costs. Not the poor.