Can Wind Power Survive Trump’s Efforts Against It?: QuickTake

US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to thwart the wind power industry. Within hours of returning to the White House in 2025, Trump issued a directive that froze new permitting for wind energy and ordered officials to consider terminating existing leases.

But his efforts — which cast a pall over the wind industry, triggering project delays and some cancellations — have run into legal problems. In December, a US judge ruled the permitting freeze was illegal. Then, in the span of a single week in mid-January, federal judges blocked the Trump administration from enforcing stop-work orders on three separate ...