Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Offshore Wind
The motion follows a December ruling that vacated the permit pause and leaves the offshore wind moratorium defense abandoned, with 17 states and a trade group unopposed.
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Trump waves the white flag on one of his longtime personal vendettas
President Donald Trump's administration is quietly folding on a major policy to attack the development of renewable energy in the United States.According to Heatmap, the Justice Department this week "filed a motion ... to dismiss its appeal of a federal court's December decision vacating the order t...
Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Offshore Wind
Trump’s Department of Justice is giving up on defending the president’s offshore wind permitting moratorium.The DOJ filed a motion on Wednesday to dismiss its appeal of a federal court’s December decision vacating the order to halt offshore wind approvals. The plaintiffs in the case — New York and 16 other states, as well as the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, a trade group — did not oppose the motion. The case will not be officially dismiss…
The Trump administration has paralysed on Thursday the concession of five offshore wind projects that were already under construction on the east coast of the United States, citing risks to national security. The 6.2 GW measure of renewable capacity freezes and threatens to stop decarbonization just as demand for electricity is skyrocketing through data centers and artificial intelligence.Construction projects that remain in suspense The order o…
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