Trump’s war on windmills, briefly explained

Birds fly in the foreground of the Vineyard Wind turbines off the coast of Nantucket on September 11, 2025. | Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is launching a new attack in his one-sided war against wind farms.

What happened? On Monday, the Trump administration announced it was halting leases for five in-progress wind farms off the East Coast over alleged “national security risks,” which it........

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