US, TotalEnergies to shift nearly $1 billion from wind to oil and gas

Taxpayers to fork out $1B to block Trump's pet obsession: 'Outrageous misuse'

The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind.The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States paying $928 million to reimburse what the company initially spent on the leases.Under the…

Outrage builds over Trump’s billion-dollar bribe to stop wind farms

WASHINGTON—The BlueGreen Alliance of unions and environmental groups and Public Citizen slammed Donald Trump’s latest anti-green move: A $928 million payment to TotalEnergies to stop its construction and cancel its leases for wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, and its promise to never build wind farms in the U.S. again. The alliance, founded by the Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, is working to convince decision-makers th…

NC offshore wind project scrapped as Trump admin cancels leases

The Trump administration has canceled two large offshore wind-farm electrical generation leases that were approved under President Joe Biden. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum made the announcement at a major energy conference in Houston, Texas.  “The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over, and the era of affordable, reliable and secure energy is here to stay,” Burgum said.  In 2022, French ener…

Trump Admin STRIKES Nearly $1 BILLION DEAL to DITCH Biden’s FAILED Atlantic Wind Farms — Forces French Giant to INVEST in American Oil, Gas, and LNG Instead | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

The Trump administration has finalized a massive deal with French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies to abandon offshore wind projects along the U.S.

Wind power will continue to grow, despite Trump administration's attempts to halt renewable energy: Experts

A general view of wind turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Guerande peninsula in western France, in Batz-sur-Mer, on December 3, 2025. (Photo by Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Wind power production will continue to advance, despite the Trump administration’s attempts to halt the growing momentum of renewable energy, experts told ABC News. On Monday, the U.S. Department of the Interior rea…

A $1B offshore wind buyout promises to lower monthly bills. It’s not that simple

The U.S. government is paying a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to give up offshore wind leases and instead invest in exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Trump administration said the decision was made to reduce Americans’ energy bills, but the details paint a more complicated picture.  TotalEnergies held two offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York and North Carolina. The company had planned to build wind farms capable of po…