Donald Trump’s anti-wind orders dealt the final blow, but Joe Biden’s permitting reform failure started the death spiral.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...

Trump wants to increase drilling for oil and gas and has been hostile to renewable energy, particularly offshore wind.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Block Island Wind Farm turbine operates, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour ...

Wind turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island, the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. Wind turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island, the first ...

FILE - A Block Island Wind Farm turbine operates, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File) ...

In 2017, the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm built in America, started selling power to what’s now Rhode Island Energy. Two years later, the Public Utilities ...

Learn more. A new effort is underway in the Legislature to derail the Mills administration’s plan to build a wind port on Sears Island. Proposed legislation — backed by six Republicans ...

FILE - The five turbines of Block Island Wind Farm operate, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File) FILE - The five ...

FILE - A Block Island Wind Farm turbine operates, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File) FILE - A Block Island Wind ...

FILE - A Block Island Wind Farm turbine operates, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File) President-elect Donald Trump ...