Trump is losing his war on offshore wind power

New York Attorney General Tish James and 17 other state attorneys general defeated Donald Trump's attempt to impose a moratorium on offshore wind energy projects, after a federal judge in Boston ruled against the administration and the government abandoned its appeal.

New York Attorney General Tish James, along with AG counterparts in 17 other states, have prevailed over Donald Trump’s capricious attempts to derail offshore wind energy projects all around the country by imposing a moratorium on approvals and even the issuance permits or leases for already-approved projects. Having lost before a federal trial judge in Boston, the administration abandoned its own appeal, likely recognizing that it had no ability to actually defend this on the merits. We’ve no doubt that the administration undertook these efforts not for any real specific economic or environmental or military reasons but simply as another plank in its obsession with owning the libs, which makes it worth pointing out that this antipathy towards renewable energy and wind in particular harms everyone — liberals, conservatives, MAGA, in red states and blue states, in cities and suburbs and rural areas. Nobody is happier or safer or healthier for having higher prices at the pump, dirtier air, more reliance on volatile international energy imports or uncertain supply chains and the loss