The Trump administration on Monday said it would
pause leases for five #wind #farms under construction off the east coast
🔥essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry
in a sharp escalation of Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.
The decision injected uncertainty into
$25 billion worth of projects that were expected to power more than
2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States,
according to Turn Forward, an offshore wind advocacy group.
The five wind farms were projected together to create together about 10,000 #jobs.
The move left intact just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters
— one small project off Rhode Island that began running in 2016 and a larger project off New York that has been fully operational since 2023.
The five wind farms targeted on Monday had obtained leases from the Biden administration.
Citing unspecified "national security concerns", the Trump administration said it would freeze those leases,
effectively blocking construction or operations
and jeopardizing billions of dollars that had already been invested.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-farms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share