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Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition About Members Coalition Members Affiliate Members Publications & Resources Letters & Presentations June 19, 2015 Presentations News Contact Home » News » Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions Source: By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times • Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2026 Picking the wildest fantasy promoted by President Trump as a basis for public policy is increasingly challenging — is it his yarn about s

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Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition About Members Coalition Members Affiliate Members Publications & Resources Letters & Presentations June 19, 2015 Presentations News Contact Home » News » Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions Trump’s ‘weird war’ on wind power will jeopardize our energy future and cost Americans billions Source: By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times • Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2026 Picking the wildest fantasy promoted by President Trump as a basis for public policy is increasingly challenging — is it his yarn about schoolchildren being secretly abducted from their classrooms and given sex-changing operations? The notion that the vaccines given to children are like “ a vat, like a big glass , of stuff pumped into their bodies?” Here’s one that has disrupted the economics of renewable energy generation and will cost Americans billions of dollars: It’s Trump’s “completely weird war on wind power in the United States,” based on a sheaf of “fact-free arguments.” That judgment comes from Steven Cohen , a climate policy expert at Columbia University, who points out that wind already accounts for 10.5% of U.S. energy generation, that it’s destined to continue growing — and that most of it is generated today in red states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas. Fifty years from now, people are going to be amazed that we burned these rare, useful hydrocarbons for fuel, when the sun was just sitting up there providing an essentially infinite source of energy. — Steven Cohen, Columbia University There is no question that Trump’s weird war against wind is full blown. On the day of his second inauguration, he issued an executive order shutting down all new permits for offshore wind farms and ordered the Interior Department to review existing permits. A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the executive order in December, and his orders suspending work on existing offshore wind projects have been halted by other federal judges. The Trump administration has blocked or delayed as many as 165 wind projects on private land, citing “national security” concerns, according to the American Clean Power Assn. . Most recently, Trump has reached agreements with offshore wind firms in which the government will pay them a combined $2 billion to abandon their U.S. projects. At some level, this crusade resembles Trump’s misguided effort to revive the American coal industry , which is on the glide path to inevitable extinction. In that case, Trump is waging an explicitly partisan and ideological battle. “We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal,” he declared last April. Trump’s anti-wind program is part of his campaign to dismantle U.S. renewables policy because of its roots in the Biden

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