Efforts to block wind and solar energy have grown along with advances in the technology, especially since 2021. USA TODAY’s analysis found by the end of 2025, 24% of counties nationwide had some ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) issued a memorandum on July 15, 2025, announcing the end of what DOI refers to as "preferential treatment" for "unreliable, subsidy-dependent" 1 wind and ...

Key tax incentives for US wind and solar projects would face a more aggressive phase-out in the Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s spending package. The tweak, which follows pushback ...

Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked to fulfill a campaign promise to shut down the young offshore wind industry in the U.S. He stopped all federal permitting, and this week, his ...

Harnessing the wind is nothing new. As far back as 200 BC China used simple windmills to pump water, and by the 17th century the Dutch were using wind power to reclaim thousands of acres of land by ...

The state’s offshore wind power aspirations were set even further back Monday with a six-month delay in the process of finalizing new projects, a slowdown that comes as the governor and elected ...

The Department of Interior will review environmental assessments, leases, construction and operation plans among a list of 69 items released in a memo on Thursday (17 July). Image: Unsplash. US solar ...