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Trump’s 12 months of offshore wind carnage

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Last updated: December 31, 2025 5:33 am
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Published: December 31, 2025
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When Donald Trump received the presidential election final November, it wasn’t completely clear how critical he was about dismantling offshore wind. Positive, he appreciated to rant about generators making the whales loopy, and there was the notorious authorized struggle over a wind farm off the coast of his golf course in Scotland. However would he actually attempt to minimize down a complete power sector? Did he even have the facility to do so?

The solutions, as we discovered on this decisive and devastating 12 months, are sure and just about.

On his first day in workplace, Trump issued an government order that froze offshore wind allowing and ordered the Inside Division to evaluate the initiatives it had already accredited. The transfer instantly gummed up any developments that didn’t have federal permits, however the upshot was murkier for the 9 initiatives with approvals in hand. (In mid-December, a federal courtroom struck down that government order.)

The primary already-permitted endeavor to crumble was the Atlantic Shores set up in New Jersey. In late January, Shell — one of many two builders — introduced it was pulling out. Then New Jersey backed away from shopping for energy from the generators. Weeks later got here the ocean salt within the wound: The Environmental Safety Company revoked a Clear Air Act allow for Atlantic Shores.

The administration halted work on New York’s 810-megawatt Empire Wind 1 challenge in April; building resumed after a few month and almost $1 billion in prices for the developer. The funds legislation handed by Republicans in July killed tax credit for wind farms that don’t come on-line ASAP. The 704-megawatt Revolution Wind set up close to Rhode Island obtained a stop-work order, too; that one was additionally lifted after a few month. The Transportation Division yanked funding for a bunch of infrastructure initiatives associated to offshore wind in September. Then Trump advised a half-dozen companies to root round for causes to oppose putting in generators out at sea.

Only for good measure, the administration continues to be attempting — and typically failing — to revoke permits for accredited however earlier-stage installations that might possible wrestle to start building anyway, given the, uh, inhospitable local weather.

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