Trump’s Attack on Wind, Solar Cuts Deeper Than Industry Feared (2)

President Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on wind and solar power from the rhetorical to the tangible, mounting a rapid-fire campaign that exceeds the industries’ worst fears.

In just the past few weeks, the Trump administration instituted permitting reviews that threaten US wind and solar developments. It imposed standards that would essentially prevent new developments on federal land. It rescinded Biden-era decisions earmarking coastal waters for future wind turbines. And on Wednesday it yanked approval for a massive planned wind farm in Idaho.

A cable laying barge, meant to lay cable to connect the Empire Wind farm to New York City’s grid, in the New York Harbor.

Photographer: Bryan Derballa/Bloomberg

The pace and range of strikes against renewables — alongside several other actions that serve to prop up fossil fuels and nuclear ...