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  • Trump Regime Halts Work on Wind Farms in Rhode Island and Maryland

    Trump Regime Halts Work on Wind Farms in Rhode Island and Maryland


    Striking another blow against clean energy, the Trump administration stopped work at an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearing completion. He also canceled the contracts for a wind farm 10 miles off the coast of Maryland, where construction had not started.

    Trump hates wind farms, possibly because he received large campaign contributions from the oil and gas and coal industries.

    But his rage towards wind farms goes back almost 20 years.

    Fortune Magazine wrote that Trump has railed against wind energy since 2006, when he saw that the Scottish government was building a wind farm near his new golf club. From that time forward, he opposed wind energy.

    Trump wrote in a 2013 Daily Mail article that he would fight “for as long as it takes—to hell if I have to—and spend as much as it takes to block this useless and grotesque blot on our heritage.” By the time he was first running for president in 2015, Trump had tweeted negatively about wind or “windmills” more than 130 times.

    Much to Trump’s chagrin, the Scottish wind farm opened in 2018. But he’s carried that fight much more aggressively in his second term as U.S. president.

    Upon his return to Scotland this July, he emphasized: “We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us”. Trump added Aug. 20 on Truth Social that he “will not approve” wind or solar projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he posted.

    NPR reported:

    The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island.

    The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a letter to one of the developers, a Danish firm called Ørsted, that the government was halting work on the almost-finished project in order to “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States.” The project is also being developed by Global Infrastructure Partners.

    The order to stop work on the Revolution Wind project is the latest move by the Trump administration targeting the country’s renewable energy industry. President Trump, a longtime critic of the wind industry, in January issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects. The Internal Revenue Service recently put out new guidance that makes it harder for companies building wind and solar projects to qualify for federal tax incentives. And the Commerce Department is investigatingwhether imports of wind turbines and their components threaten national security.

    Bloomberg reported:

    The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on theclean energy source loathed by the president.

    The Interior Department plans to move to remand and vacate a permit granted to the $6 billion Maryland Offshore Wind Project, according to a court filing dated Friday. The project, which will consist of as many as 114 wind turbines about 10 nautical miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, was approved by the Biden administration in 2024 and was set to begin construction next year.



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  • Trump Halts ICE Raids at Farms, Restaurants, Hotels


    Social media was ablaze yesterday and today with videos of ICE agents grabbing farm workers as they did their jobs in the fields and arriving at hotels and other places of employment to arrest undocumented workers.

    Trump must have been bombarded with calls from farmers and business owners, outraged that their long-time workers were seized. Who will pick the fruits and vegetables? Who will clean the hotel rooms? Who will staff the kitchen and bus tables?

    These were his supporters. They wanted the illegals deported, but not their workers. How would they function without their staff and their laborers?

    Trump heard them. Late Friday he issued an order to ICE to avoid farms, restaurants, hotels, and meat packing facilities.

    Maybe it suddenly occurred to him that removing the workforce from so many basic industries would be bad for the economy. Maybe Stephen Miller was out of town and turned off his cell phone.

    The New York Times reported on his sudden change of plans:

    The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.

    The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.

    The new guidance comes after protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s immigration raids, including at farms and businesses. It also came as Mr. Trump made a rare concession this week that his crackdown was hurting American farmers and hospitality businesses.

    The guidance was sent on Thursday in an email by a senior ICE official, Tatum King, to regional leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations, including work site operations, known as Homeland Security Investigations.

    “Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” he wrote in the message.

    The email explained that investigations involving “human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK.” But it said — crucially — that agents were not to make arrests of “non-criminal collaterals,” a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any other crime.



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