How Trump’s assault on US wind industry threatens jobs and power for nearly 5m homes
by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor, with graphics by Al from Environment | The Guardian on (#708VT)
US president's offshore wind crackdown targets nine projects, threatening jobs, homes and the clean energy transition
Donald Trump has jettisoned Republicans' long-standing all of the above" approach to energy by using the US government to aggressively stamp out clean energy projects - particularly offshore wind turbines.
The scale of the intervention is remarkable - a total of nine already permitted offshore wind projects that were set to provide electricity to nearly 5m households and create around 9,000 jobs in the US are under investigation or have already been paused by the Trump administration.
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