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The cancellation is Trump’s latest determination against renewable energy, which the US president has dismissed a ‘scam’.
Published On 29 Aug 2025
The medication of United States President Donald Trump has moved to cancel $679m successful national backing for offshore upwind projects, successful its latest salvo against renewable energy.
The determination connected Friday is acceptable to impact 12 offshore projects, including a $427m task successful California, arsenic Trump pushes to deregulate and re-prioritise fossil fuels.
In a statement, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the backing was a discarded of wealth “that could different spell towards revitalising America’s maritime industry”.
“Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritising existent infrastructure improvements implicit phantasy upwind projects that outgo overmuch and connection little,” helium said.
The backing had been awarded nether the medication of erstwhile President Joe Biden arsenic portion of a wider pivot towards greenish energy.
Among the cancellations was backing for The Humboldt Bay project, which was meant to beryllium the archetypal offshore upwind terminal connected the Pacific coast.
A spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has emerged arsenic a starring authorities hostile to Trump, criticised the enactment arsenic an illustration of the medication “assaulting cleanable vigor and infrastructure projects – hurting concern and sidesplitting jobs successful agrarian areas, and ceding our economical aboriginal to China”.
The cuts see a $47m assistance for an offshore upwind logistics and manufacturing hub adjacent the Port of Baltimore successful Maryland, arsenic good arsenic $48m awarded successful 2022 for an offshore upwind terminal task adjacent New York’s Staten Island.
Also chopped was $33m for a larboard task successful Salem, Massachusetts, to redevelop a vacant concern installation for offshore upwind projects.
In a statement, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said cancelling the Salem assistance volition outgo 800 operation workers their jobs.
“The existent discarded present is the Trump medication cancelling tens of millions of dollars for a task that is already nether mode to summation our vigor supply,” she said.
The latest trimming comes aft the Trump medication abruptly halted operation of a astir implicit upwind workplace disconnected the seashore of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Department of the Interior said the determination was indispensable to code nationalist information concerns, without providing further details.
In aboriginal August, the Interior Department besides cancelled a large upwind workplace successful Idaho, which had been approved successful the last days of Biden’s presidency.
Multiple national agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Energy and Commerce, said they are reviewing offshore upwind farms approved by the Biden medication on the Atlantic coast.
Trump has regularly lashed retired astatine greenish energy, and peculiarly upwind power, calling it an disfigured and costly signifier of vigor that “smart” countries bash not use.
Yet, overseas allies and rivals alike person progressively embraced renewable vigor successful an effort to dilatory the ravages of clime change. China, for instance, has invested heavy successful star and upwind vigor and has go a starring root for upwind turbine parts.
Critics person said Trump’s attack volition acceptable the US backmost down its competitors.
Last week, arsenic US energy prices roseate astatine much than doubly the complaint of inflation, Trump falsely blamed renewable powerfulness for the skyrocketing prices, calling the manufacture a “scam”.
On Tuesday, helium pledged not to determination guardant with immoderate upwind powerfulness projects.
“We’re not allowing immoderate windmills to spell up unless there’s a ineligible concern wherever idiosyncratic committed to it a agelong clip ago,” Trump said astatine a furniture meeting.
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