The Administration is actively restricting deployment of wind and solar by excluding turbines from federal lands, farmland, and offshore locations and by pursuing tariffs and investigations into foreign turbine components. Officials announced a probe into imposing tariffs on imported wind-turbine parts and halted an almost-completed Rhode Island offshore wind farm on asserted "national security" grounds. The stance contrasts with a 2009 position in which Donald Trump and family executives signed a full-page ad endorsing strengthened U.S. climate legislation and investment in clean-energy technologies to spur growth, jobs, and energy security. Aesthetic objections to turbines at his Scottish golf course influenced later opposition.
They would not like them on our federal lands (those are reserved for oil and gas, and maybe nuclear reactors). They do not want them on farmland. They will not allow them to float offshore. The Trump Administration's war on wind and solar power just keeps getting more aggressive: late last week, for instance, it announced an investigation into whether it should tariff wind-turbine components arriving from other nations for projects that it had taken office too late to block.
As the Times politely put it, "The Trump administration has typically imposed tariffs to protect American companies against foreign competition and spur domestic production of critical products. This time, laying out a path to impose tariffs could be an attempt to stymie an industry." On Friday, it shut down an almost-completed wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island on unspecified (and hard to imagine) "national security" grounds.
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