The The Natural Resources Defense Council writes:
Walking away from offshore wind projects in response to short-term political or regulatory uncertainty runs counter to sound energy policy and prudent long-term system planning.Kit KennedyJuly 8, 2026The Trump administration is now paying energy companies billions of taxpayer dollars to walk away from offshore wind leases, and the blowback is mounting. Members of Congress are investigating, calling the legality of these agreements into question while California regulators have issued a subpoena raising legal and transparency concerns. At the same time, a major U.S. pension fund is publicly questioning whether abandoning offshore wind leases during a period of political uncertainty reduces risk to the company and shareholders or increases it.[...]In recent months, the Trump administration finalized two major offshore wind lease buyout agreements, eliminating four leases that could have produced 8.4 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity—enough to power nearly four million homes.
As the price of electricity, home heating oil, and natural gas keeps rising because Trump’s energy policy quashes the sources of low-cost electricity!
AP NewsBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALYApril 21, 2026A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down several Trump administration actions slowing down development of clean energy, including a requirement that all solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.Chief Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that a coalition of plaintiffs representing wind and solar developers were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that the administration’s actions violate federal statute and will cause irreparable harm if the court did not intervene.She issued a preliminary injunction to stop the administration from implementing the policies, which clean energy advocates said would hamstring projects that need to get underway quickly to qualify for expiring federal tax credits.
And Congress is starting to look into Trump buying out renewable energy projects as the price of energy keeps rising.
Administration’s actions will kill more than 30,000 jobs and raise energy costsWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Angus King (I-Maine), and Martin Heinrich (D-M.N.) launched an investigation with eight other Democratic colleagues into the Trump administration’s campaign to kill offshore wind energy projects with a letter to several energy companies who’ve recently canceled offshore wind projects demanding a response about lease buyout agreements.“These buyouts have been announced amid a larger effort by the Trump Administration to stall wind and solar projects – the energy sources that are cheap, clean, and fastest to bring online – across the country,” the senators wrote. “At a time when gas prices have spiked by an average of more than $1 dollar per gallon due to the President’s war in Iran and electricity prices are rising nearly twice as fast as inflation, clean energy offers a critical opportunity to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and relieve costs for people across the country. Dismantling the burgeoning offshore wind industry now and creating broader uncertainty for investment in cheap, clean energy will have consequences for decades to come.”“These projects were poised not only to advance U.S. leadership in clean energy technology and generation capacity, but also to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state investment in research and development, port upgrades, workforce development, and community benefit agreements,” the senators continued. “The two Invenergy projects in the Gulf of Maine were expected to help power more than 2 million homes and support over 18,000 jobs. The Leading Light Wind project in the New York Bight was projected to generate more than $3.7 billion in economic development benefits and over 7,000 jobs. The Golden State Wind project off California’s Central Coast would have powered 1.1 million homes, created more than 8,000 jobs, and delivered a $30 million commitment to workforce development and supply chain initiatives.”
As the war goes on with no end in sight, with Trump buying fuel from Russia, with energy prices going out of sight, with Trump sideing with the "Global Warming is a Hoax" oil and coal barons who have donated millions to Trump and the Republicans.
Fox59 News reports that...
by: JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated PressPosted: Oct 2, 2026Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office such as canceling new clean energy projects, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank.The Energy Innovation analysis found that households will pay an average of $6,500 more for energy, cumulatively through 2040. In five states, households will pay roughly $9,000 more: Oregon, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming.The California-based think tank said there will be more demand for natural gas for electricity because the administration is canceling new wind, solar and hydrogen projects and there will be more gasoline demand for transportation because Trump and Congress are revoking policies that incentivized efficient and lower-emissions vehicles. Higher demand increases prices.
Thank you, Donald! We love getting the shaft so you and your billionaire friends can pick our pockets!
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