After spending years battling the Biden administration’s offshore wind rollout, activists told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they are feeling vindicated after President Donald Trump immediately took aim at the industry upon being sworn in.
The Biden administration subsidized and supported a massive buildout of offshore wind generation along America’s coasts, even while critics and activists pointed out that the projects did not make much economic sense and posed potentially serious risks to marine ecosystems. Trump temporarily suspended offshore wind leasing in federally-controlled waters and kicked off a review of the government’s offshore wind permitting practices, but the activists told the DCNF there is still more to do in the fight against ocean industrialization. (RELATED: Major Enviro Orgs Shack Up With Foreign Oil Giants To Industrialize The Ocean)
“We have…