… Trump has declared that the US will see “no new windmills,” the type of comment that many in the media chalk up to another whimsical feature of his quirky personality. That, however, “obscures and deflects from the real agenda behind Trump’s assault on the wind-energy industry,” argues Michael E. Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. …
Project 2025 pushed the myth that renewables were “unreliable” and overly dependent on subsidies. Of course, fossil fuel companies receive far more subsidies than renewables ever have, notes Mann.
“Trump’s assault on wind — in both word and deed — is best seen, in this context, as a quid pro quo to the fossil fuel interests, plutocrats, and petrostate actors who helped return him and enabling congressional Republicans to power.”
The US East Coast is experiencing the effects of “a well-worn disinformation playbook, one the fossil fuel industry has refined over decades, being redeployed to slow the clean energy transition at precisely the moment it threatens entrenched power,” says L. Delta Merner, lead scientist at the Science Hub for Climate Litigation with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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