NPR: Trump Administration Halts Work on an Almost-finished Wind Farm
According to NPR:
The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island.
The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a letter to one of the developers, a Danish firm called Ørsted, that the government was halting work on the almost-finished project in order to “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States.” The project is also being developed by Global Infrastructure Partners.
The order to stop work on the Revolution Wind project is the latest move by the Trump administration targeting the country’s renewable energy industry. President Trump, a longtime critic of the wind industry, in January issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects. The Internal Revenue Service recently put out new guidance that makes it harder for companies building wind and solar projects to qualify for federal tax incentives. And the Commerce Department is investigating whether imports of wind turbines and their components threaten national security.
How much damage is Trump and his administration inflicting on our planet’s efforts to prevent environmental collapse? It’s worth noting that the United States accounts for 12.6% of the world’s greenhouse emissions, and many countries around the globe are making great progress, even as the U.S. pursues its “drill baby drill” policy and actively destroys the efforts made by previous administrations to decarbonize the energy and transportation industries.
Environmental protection is just one of the many humanitarian causes being devastated by Trump. If, for some reason, the idea of a roasting planet doesn’t concern you, think about our educational system, healthcare, the military in cities governed by Democrats, pedophilia, and the end of American democracy.
Re: the words at left, it depends on whom you ask. In fact, the only reason we’re destroying our planet is that there are plenty of people whose main interest is the profit associated with doing so.
In his heyday, John Cleese and his sardonic wit had great appeal, not only with the Brits, but even with Americans. It’s unclear how all this would play in today’s dumbed-down U.S. society.
Watching one’s country disintegrate is most certainly painful–if you’re an honest intellectual like David Brooks.
Please take a moment and think about the graphic at left.
Counter-factualism is a huge part of life in the United States right now. That can mean re-writing the history that is (or was) on display in the Smithsonian Museum, climate change denialism, or the rejection of vaccine science.
The words at left come from American musician Jack White.
I just met a very bright young chemical engineer who’s working on plastic containers that biodegrade at the optimum rate.
Of all the distasteful elements of American life today, perhaps the whitewashing of U.S. history is the most offensive.
I had to laugh when I came across this meme. Does that woman look like a climate change denier from America’s great plains region, or what?
