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Zorro

(16,795 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 11:39 AM Jan 22

Trump signs executive order pausing wind turbine leases, could impact Midwest

President Donald Trump on Monday made good his promise to create policy "where no windmills are being built."

The executive order he signed Monday temporarily halts offshore wind energy lease sales in federal waters and pauses approvals, permits and loans for both offshore and onshore wind.

During the pause, officials will review the environmental impact of both onshore and offshore wind projects on wildlife and consider the "economic costs associated with intermittent generation" and the effects of subsidies on the viability of the wind energy industry, according to the executive order.

Land-based wind turbines currently produce 10% of the United State's electricity, according to American Clean Power, an industry group. The vast majority of those are built on private land.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/21/trump-executive-order-wind-turbine-offshore-projects/77848624007/

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Trump signs executive order pausing wind turbine leases, could impact Midwest (Original Post) Zorro Jan 22 OP
Remember: Our Dear Leader believes windmills cause cancer. surfered Jan 22 #1
The president is an animal lover and wants to protect birds dalton99a Jan 22 #2
Well so much for thousands of jobs and our dying climate. travelingthrulife Jan 22 #3
I will laugh my a** off when there's no more coal nor oil to power this country. Way to reduce America sinkingfeeling Jan 22 #4
Trump is bad for everything Johonny Jan 22 #5
This will hurt red states newdeal2 Jan 22 #6
Anyone remember this? (Trump: "*our* kind of energy"). keep_left Jan 22 #7

sinkingfeeling

(53,964 posts)
4. I will laugh my a** off when there's no more coal nor oil to power this country. Way to reduce America
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 11:47 AM
Jan 22

to third world status. No longer a leader in innovation, we will sit on the sidelines as the rest of the world drives EVs and runs their homes and businesses with clean energy.

keep_left

(2,669 posts)
7. Anyone remember this? (Trump: "*our* kind of energy").
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jan 22

Trump is a total shill for the fossil fuel energy economy, and has been for years. Here's some campaign remarks from Ohio in August 2020 that some may recall. Trump was ridiculed for his statement, in which he claimed that Biden, a lifelong Catholic, will "hurt God" and "hurt the Bible."

Trump also attacked Biden for being "against energy...our kind of energy"--whatever the fuck that is. See 1:09.

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