{"id":17892,"date":"2025-05-21T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17892"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:10:20","slug":"17-states-sue-trump-administration-for-its-anti-wind-energy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17892","title":{"rendered":"17 States Sue Trump Administration for Its Anti-Wind Energy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Under Trump, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/07\/climate\/trump-wind-turbines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised<\/a>&nbsp;to implement a policy &#8220;where no windmills are being built,&#8221; the federal government has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/29\/trumps-100-day-energy-policy-scorecard-disrupted-markets-and-slowed-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bolstered fossil fuel projects<\/a>&nbsp;and deterred renewable energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-trump-empire-wind-58ebb61bbfbdb3dc1e9b7c51692f042c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently<\/a>&nbsp;halted the construction of an offshore wind project that would power 500,000 homes, whose federal lease was approved in 2017 under the first Trump administration. The Environmental Protection Agency has also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/epa-remands-clean-air-act-permit-atlantic-shores-offshore-wind-energy-trump\/742885\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rescinded<\/a>&nbsp;Clean Air Act permits for a New Jersey offshore wind project, which had &#8220;devoted extensive time and resources to follow a complex, multi-year permitting process, resulting in final project approvals that conform with the law,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticshoreswind.com\/atlantic-shores-statement-on-epas-decision-to-pull-back-fully-executed-air-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to the project&#8217;s developer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/06\/17-states-sue-trump-administration-for-its-anti-wind-energy-policy\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/06\/17-states-sue-trump-administration-for-its-anti-wind-energy-policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Under Trump, who promised to implement a policy &#8220;where no windmills are being built,&#8221; the federal government has bolstered fossil fuel projects and deterred renewable energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently halted the construction of an offshore wind project that would power 500,000 homes, whose federal lease was approved in 2017 under the first Trump administration. The Environmental Protection Agency has also rescinded Clean Air Act permits for a New Jersey offshore wind project, which had &#8220;devoted extensive time and resources to follow a complex, multi-year permitting process, resulting in final project approvals that conform with the law,&#8221; according to the project&#8217;s developer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/06\/17-states-sue-trump-administration-for-its-anti-wind-energy-policy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[237,105,221,103,233,104,238,683,170,1059],"class_list":["post-17892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-global-warming","tag-subsidies","tag-subsidy","tag-trump","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17893,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions\/17893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}