“My goal is to not let any windmill be built. They’re losers,” Trump said to oil executives in January.

The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects. Democrats in Congress are investigating. The Republican administration adopted this strategy after federal courts thwarted President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop offshore wind development through executive action.

May 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has brought U.S. onshore wind development to a halt, citing national security concerns, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands are being held up by the Pentagon,

California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project. Golden State Wind was a floating offshore wind project proposed off California’s central coast. The California Energy Commission said Monday it issued an administrative subpoena to Golden State Wind.

In exchange, the companies will invest in oil and gas projects, echoing an earlier deal with the French energy giant TotalEnergies.

The Interior Department said Monday that it was halting five offshore wind energy projects, citing national security concerns and continuing the Trump administration’s year-long push to block even wind farms already under construction. The department ...

Dominion Energy's estimated $10-billion, 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project off Virginia Beach, set to complete construction next year of 176 turbines, is among the five Atlantic Ocean projects claimed by the Trump administration to be a ...

U.S. Interior officials have said the cancellations are beneficial for taxpayers and energy dependability. Projects tendered under the previous administration were deemed too costly and reliant on subsidies,

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, April 21 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar energy industry groups say have stymied the development of new energy generation projects.

Grist reports that the Great Lakes, with untapped wind energy potential, face obstacles like regulatory challenges and lack of infrastructure.