On this edition of Your Call's One Planet Series, we discuss Trump’s attacks on the wind industry and renewable energy.
The Guardian reports that Trump has jettisoned Republicans’ longstanding “all of the above” approach to energy by using the US government to aggressively stamp out clean energy projects – particularly offshore wind turbines.
The scale of the intervention is remarkable – a total of nine already permitted offshore wind projects that were set to provide electricity to nearly 5m households and create about 9,000 jobs in the US are under investigation or have already been paused by the Trump administration .
Trump has barred any new solar and wind projects from federal land and waters, eliminated incentives for clean energy and, almost uniquely for a US president, calle