Federal judge lifts administration halt of offshore wind farm in New England
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·September 22, 2025djohnston
That sort of instability is so damaging beyond the boundaries of his term. Hopefully this restores a bit of confidence.
ascendantlogic
The Supreme Court is determined to give him unfettered power to do whatever he wants so I'm sure once it reaches them they'll strike down whatever the lower court does to stop him.
adrr
Amazing how Trump gets unfettered power and Biden gets reeled in. Almost prevented Biden from rolling back a Trump EA when Biden was in power.
softwaredoug
Shadow docket here we come.
noncoml
SC is gonna shut it down. Anyone taking bets?
JumpCrisscross
> Anyone taking bets?
Polymarket is, at least for tariffs [1].
[1] https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-supreme-court-rule-in-...
add-sub-mul-div
Context:
> President Donald Trump has made sweeping strides to prioritize fossil fuels and hinder renewable energy projects. Trump recently called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site this week.
esseph
My theory is that he wants to use the sale of US fossil fuels to pay off the debt. Maybe that's bogus, just my uneducated opinion!
(I also think it's incredibly shortsighted)
WaltPurvis
Exporting fossil fuels nets the government <$150 billion per year, while the federal government's debt is >$37 trillion (and growing by trillions per year). It's impossible to expand the sale of fossil fuels enough to make any kind of noticeable dent in the debt.
margalabargala
In terms of being able to pay off a debt, having more resources (power from wind and fossil fuels) is strictly better than less (just the fossil fuels).
So that's not even remotely economically sound or logical.
In conclusion you're probably right.
bawolff
I suppose hypothetically if he significantly increased royalties/export fees/whatever and joined OPEC to manipulate the price of oil, it might help.
Obviously that would be crazy.
phkahler
>> My theory is that he wants to use the sale of US fossil fuels to pay off the debt
If that were the case, he should be happy for alternative energy projects to free up some fuel for sale.
nick49488171
The only debts he want to pay off are those in his personal accounts.
guelo
If he cared about the debt he wouldn't have added $4 trillion extra to the debt with the ridiculous One Big Beautiful Bill.
nielsbot
Don't overthink it. I'd bet people in his admin and adjacent to it benefit from the existing fossil fuel regime and will do anything to stall progress on renewables
Trump is a monster who would throw his own children into a furnace if it made him richer.
"Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, 'Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless.
'What giants?' asked Sancho Panza.
'Those you see over there,' replied his master, 'with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length.'
'Take care, sir,' cried Sancho. 'Those over there are not giants but windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone.'"