Trump’s Latest Climate Attack: Offshore Wind Farms |
A wind turbine off Block Island, Rhode Island. Julia Nikhinson/AP
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already under construction, in the heaviest blow yet to an industry that the administration has relentlessly targeted throughout the year.
Trump’s Department of the Interior said that it was halting the building of five wind projects due to “national security risks”. The department said it would work with the US Department of Defense to mitigate the risk of the wind turbine towers creating radar interference called “clutter” that could, in some way, hamper the US military.
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