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Donald Trump’s crusade against offshore wind just got more serious | The Trump administration forced a permitted offshore wind project to halt construction.


The Trump administration halted construction of a permitted wind farm.

But on top of financial woes brought on by tangled supply chains and rising project costs, offshore wind has faced stiff opposition from the commercial fishing industry and residents concerned about turbines affecting ocean views. A turbine failure off the coast of Massachusetts that led to a blade breaking off and plummeting into the ocean fomented fears about the potential environmental impact of wind farms, although necropsies point to vessel strikes and fishing gear as the leading causes of whale deaths. “It’s the industrialization of our ocean, rubber-stamped by federal agencies and delivered by a foreign-owned corporation under the guise of climate action,” Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, said in an opinion published in the New York Post last week.

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