Audrey Streb
DCNF Energy Reporter
The Daily Caller News Foundation learned on Friday that the Department of the Interior (DOI) is immediately halting all activity on a massive offshore wind project.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the DOI is halting activity on the “Revolution Wind” project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut in line with President Donald Trump’s energy goals to boost reliable energy resources and lower costs for Americans, the agency told the DCNF. The Trump administration has dealt a series of recent blows to the wind industry, with the DOI ending “preferential treatment” for what it considers to be foreign-controlled and unreliable energy sources and moving to terminate the massive Lava Ridge Wind Project in southern Idaho that the Biden administration approved just weeks before Trump’s return to office.
“Americans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and built to last — not experimental and expensive wind projects that are proven failures,” DOI deputy press secretary Aubrie Spady told the DCNF. “In line with President Donald Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda, Interior is putting an immediate stop to these costly failures to deliver a stronger energy future and lower costs for American families. Like President Trump said, ‘the days of stupidity are over in the USA!’” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Unveils Massive Oil And Gas Lease Expansion Biden Tried To Squash)
The Biden administration approved the construction plan for Revolution Wind in 2023, which is located on the federally-owned Outer Continental Shelf. While former President Joe Biden pushed for wind and solar technology throughout his term by greenlighting billions in subsidies, loans and grants, the Trump administration has shifted its focus to conventional and reliable energy sources and taken action to crackdown on federal support for the green energy technology the Biden administration favored.
Trump signed an executive order directing the DOI to “revise any identified regulations, guidance, policies, and practices as appropriate and consistent with applicable law to eliminate any such preferences for wind and solar facilities” on July 7. Trump campaigned against Biden’s push for green energy and has continued to rail against Biden’s climate agenda, writing on Truth Social Wednesday that “any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA.”
The agency introduced an additional permitting roadblock for green energy projects on public lands on Aug. 1., and a few days later, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X that wind projects “are known to kill eagles” and that his agency would enforce the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to protect eagles. The Trump administration also pulled a permit for a massive pending New Jersey offshore wind project in March.
The wind industry has come under fire in recent years, as multiple beaches closed in 2024 after a broken wind turbine shed debris into the ocean off the coast of Nantucket and protests surged due to concerns about high-voltage cables running through neighborhoods in 2023. Environmentalists also raised concerns over the energy technology after dolphins washed up along the East Coast in 2023.
Some fishermen have also voiced opposition to offshore wind projects, arguing that their industry cannot survive alongside offshore wind farms.
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About time-
Coalition’s net-zero plan under fire as Qld LNP members vote to abandon
The Coalition should have gone to the last election with dumping nut zero so at least they could be haranguing Labor over it now-
Blackout warnings for Queenslanders ahead of summer from Australian Energy Market Operator – ABC News
What do you get with windmills and industrial solar? Answer: Blackout warnings.
In the United States, before windmills and solar were put on the grid, there were no blackout warnings. Now that windmills and solar are incorporated into our grid, there are constant blackout warnings.
Correlation equals causation, in this case.
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Whistling in the dark
Much wailing: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2025/08/23/breaking-trump-administration-stops-construction-on-80-pct-complete-offshore-wind-farm/
From the article: “[Trump] writing on Truth Social Wednesday that “any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA.”
Are you listening UK voters? He’s talking about you, too. He’s telling you why your electricity prices are so high. You have fools for leaders. It’s time for a change. Otherwise, the UK goes broke.
“Otherwise, the UK goes broke.”
We are broke,
BUT we have Ed Moribund to lead us triumphantly to the promised land …
… of darkness & poverty for the masses & a comfortable lifestyle for the elites.
It’s a slow-motion train wreck.
At least you have low cost, slave made solar panels and EV components from China. Maybe Russian wheat from occupied Ukraine is next.
thus saving more whales than greenpeace ever did
I can’t wait to see a silky sheen of coal dust blanketing American cities ❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for helping us Build Backwards Together Donald.
If there was any doubt before that you were an idiot, it’s gone now.
“It is better to remain silent and only be thought of as a fool rather than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Is there a corollary to that quote dealing with repeatedly and eagerly going out of ones way to prove that AJ is an idiot?
I can’t wait to see thriving and wealthy American cities with cheap, abundant and secure energy. Thanks for helping us Build Back Better Together Donald Trump.
I’ve got no problem with level playing field electrons that can be provided 24/7/365 to the communal grid with the correct frequency and voltage. May the cheapest FCAS electrons win without the dumping and crony capitalism.
I can’t wait to see the avian wildlife population start to rise again at a location where a wind turbine farm has been shut down.
KILL WIND TURBINES, NOT AVIAN AND MARINE WILDLIFE.
The Department of the Interior says they are going to be looking closely at windmills killing eagles.
Don’t be surprised to see large fines being levied on eagle killers in the future.
I grew up 18mi from Chicago’s LOOP-and we had so many blackouts that my Mom had oil lamps everywhere in the house-and candles. Then the grid grew out, got stronger and more robust-industry bloomed-thanks to coal. Loons like you want to depend on wind and solar? They wanted to put bird-blenders in Lake Michigan-have you ever seen a Great Lakes super storm? And solar over good Illinois soil instead of corn. People like you have no idea what you’re blathering about.
“Technological progress made our lives immeasurably better so I want to make sure that never happens again.” Hear you loud and clear.
Unbelievable-you really are a freaking dolt…you must be a member of the Chicago City council
I still see that you are stupid enough to believe that wind and solar are improvements over what we have now, rather than a regression to power sources that were already abandoned because they don’t work.
AJ, I see you have given up trying to reply.
Seeking to limit the damage to your ego? Smartest move you’ve made yet.
The problems with coal dust were solved 50 to 60 years ago.
Staying with what works instead of what doesn’t is going backwards?
You are one strange idiot.
He’s baaaack!
“…….. and a few days later, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X that wind projects “are known to kill eagles” and that his agency would enforce the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to protect eagles.”
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Yes, I’m loving it! Been waiting for this to happen for a long time.
KILL WIND TURBINES, NOT AVIAN AND MARINE WILDLIFE.
They have to cancel the ridiculous electrocution offset program that allows them to permit eagle killing by wind turbines. See my
http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Wojick-Eagle-Kill-Report-Final.pdf
YES!!!!!! Now, go after these hucksters who have been stealing our tax dollars. And prosecute them for all the whales, dolphins, porpoises, sharks and eagles they have been killing.
“Environmentalists also raised concerns over the energy technology after dolphins washed up along the East Coast in 2023.
Some fishermen have also voiced opposition to offshore wind projects, arguing that their industry cannot survive alongside offshore wind farms.”
Let them eat electrons.
Are there enough electrons from wind and solar to go around?
UK has a combined wind and solar installed capacity of ~55GW. (Aug 2025)
the annual average contribution from wind and solar is 11.4 GW = a capacity factor of 20.7%
Currently, renewables = 1.8GW (5% of demand) & we are having to import 7.2GW (31%) from our ex-best friends in Europe.Yet that tosser Miliband is still convinced we will be 90% powered by renewables in 4 years’ time.
February 2021 in Texas should have dealt with wind as a grid power source. Killing birds, bats, and whales is yet another reason to ban wind power.
The question is not what happens under Trump, but what happens after.
Stick it up your Senator Whitehouse.
More good news. Wind and solar don’t work. If they did they wouldn’t need subsidies, tax preferences, grants, mandates, environmental forgiveness and constant backup. Stop wasting our time, money and resources on this fairytale.
Now charge them extra for dismantling and bring on court cases by fisherman, tribes, and the tainted Audubon Society.