by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
President Trump absolutely hates wind turbines. He has cancelled several projects. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act terminated about $500 billion in subsidies for Green New Scam projects. A post-OBBBA Executive order prescribed heightened regulatory scrutiny of wind and solar projects to make it difficult to use the remaining Green New Scam subsidies.
So why are some Republican politicians and a deep red state bent on building them anyway?
Politico reported this week that Speaker Mike Johnson is lobbying Trump administration officials for what would be the largest U.S. offshore wind farm under construction by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia. Apparently, outgoing Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin can’t convince President Trump, so Youngkin and Dominion Energy are apparently trying some sort of end run around the President.
In Arkansas, the only thing holding up a massive project with 600-foot wind turbines is the valiant fight of locals in five counties who have passed ordinances against the turbine’s erection. And don’t forget that last minute changes to the Senate version of the OBBBA to save Green New Scam subsidies by Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Chuck Grassley almost sank the entire bill.
