President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to "unleash" the American energy sector. Among his first acts in office? Putting a leash on wind power. The president is "desperate for more energy, as long as it's not from the wind,
In a sweeping order, President Trump halted federal approvals for new wind farms, in a move that could affect projects on land and in the ocean.
President Donald Trump suspended new federal offshore wind leasing pending an environmental and economic review, saying wind mills are ugly, expensive and harm wildlife.
Trump has claimed to be an expert on “windmills.” (It’s worth noting that windmill is an outdated term that originally referred to centuries-old tech that used wind power to turn stones to grind up grain; the modern tech designed for producing electricity is a wind turbine.)
The order reflects Trump's opposition to wind energy, stating that the consequences of onshore and offshore wind projects 'may lead to grave harm...'
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U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday.
President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf.
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Trump signed dozens of executive orders, essentially laying out policy intentions for this second term in office. Many of the orders dealt with the environment.
The first Trump administration lost more than three-quarters of the court cases against its regulatory actions, according to New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity. Many of those cases were brought by state attorneys general, including New York’s.
The order would be a potential blow to states such as New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts that are depending on the clean energy to help meet what critics call pie-in-the-sky goals.