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(12,328 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:06 PM Dec 22

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast

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 President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.

The decision injected uncertainty into projects that were collectively expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States.

It left intact just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters — one small project off Rhode Island that has been complete since 2016 and a larger project off New York that has been fully operational since 2023.

The five wind farms targeted on Monday had all obtained leases from the Biden administration. But 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 have already been invested.

The Trump administration said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, citing unspecified security risks.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-12-22T16:50:02.194004Z

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Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast (Original Post) In It to Win It Dec 22 OP

Can trump get any more stupid? Stop the wind farms, more use of oil. Paper Roses Dec 22 #1

I must be lucky. i've never been attacked by a vicious commie windmitll. Ping Tung Dec 22 #2

Just tell him if he faces the windmills away from the mainland flvegan Dec 22 #3

He has disparaged the clean energy source ever since he failed 14 years ago to stop an offshore wind farm visible from o BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 22 #4

The Trumpists simply can't stand energy generation that doesn't require one of their fossil fuel buddies... Hugin Dec 22 #5

Paper Roses

(7,617 posts)

1. Can trump get any more stupid? Stop the wind farms, more use of oil.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:43 PM

Dec 22

The net result., more money for oil companies, larger bills for the rest of us.
Can I tell you how much I hate this moron who pretends to be a genius. He is a mentally deficient person.
No ideas what he and his cohorts are doing other than destroying this country.
One moronic thing after another.

I hope I live long enough to see him gone!

Ping Tung

(4,141 posts)

2. I must be lucky. i've never been attacked by a vicious commie windmitll.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:48 PM

Dec 22

No matter how big or how drunk it was.

flvegan

(65,775 posts)

3. Just tell him if he faces the windmills away from the mainland

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:48 PM

Dec 22

they'll blow any future hurricanes away from us. He's a dumbfuck, so he'll believe it and claim how brilliant he is when there aren't any hurricanes January through July.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,848 posts)

4. He has disparaged the clean energy source ever since he failed 14 years ago to stop an offshore wind farm visible from o

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:54 PM

Dec 22

But in announcing the pause, Doug Burgum, the secretary of the interior, said in a statement that “the prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people.” He said the decision “addresses emerging national security risks as well as “vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our East Coast population centers.”

Mr. Trump has repeatedly called offshore wind turbines ugly, costly and inefficient. He has disparaged the clean energy source ever since he failed 14 years ago to stop an offshore wind farm visible from of one of his golf courses in Scotland.

In addition to Vineyard Wind 1, the other projects affected by the pause are Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind off Virginia, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind off New York, and Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Connecticut.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-farms.html

Hugin

(37,434 posts)

5. The Trumpists simply can't stand energy generation that doesn't require one of their fossil fuel buddies...