The amount of self-inflicted harm and destruction to our country in only four weeks is absolutely tragic.
Trump’s wind power restrictions put blue states’ climate goals out of reach
By Jake Spring
Washington Post
“After the election, Shell pulled out of a major turbine project off New Jersey, and an Italian undersea cable maker nixed a factory in Massachusetts that was set to employ hundreds at the site of an old coal-fired power plant. On Feb. 3, New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities decided not to buy power from any wind projects in its latest round of bidding, given that two companies had pulled out and the remaining one had lost Shell as a partner. Two days later, the CEO of the Norwegian oil company Equinor, Anders Opedal, said on an earnings call that the company was cutting its global investments in renewables by half through 2027 and acknowledged the U.S. wind market was “challenging.”
President Trump’s Day 1 executive order freezing all approvals for offshore wind threatens to shutter dozens of additional projects. And it’s limited what even some of the most liberal politicians, who had hoped to step into the breach with their states’ climate targets, can do...”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/16/trump-offshore-wind-blue-states/
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