Interior Department
The Department of the Interior is moving to cancel the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a gigawatt-scale wind farm proposed on thousands of acres of federal land in Idaho.
The Trump administration has taken further steps to thwart renewable energy development, adding new directives limiting wind and solar development on federal land and at sea.
The Department of the Interior on July 29 announced a four-pronged review that continues the president’s efforts to limit some types of renewable energy.
Large-scale solar and wind projects are facing growing local resistance along with federal policy changes.
Every Department of Interior action pertaining to wind and solar energy development must now be reviewed and approved by the Office of the Interior Secretary — after two subordinate offices separately have reviewed them and signed off.
President Trump has issued an executive order targeting renewable energy tax credits as strongly as possible under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Federal regulators are off to a running start on their expedited review of energy projects, greenlighting a uranium mine expansion in just 11 days.
BOEM lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project in a deal that will have New York work on expanding pipelines into the Northeast, a goal the White House has publicly sought since shortly after President Trump took office.
A group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general filed suit against President Donald Trump’s executive order that halted wind energy projects’ federal approvals.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted that he had directed BOEM to bring an immediate halt to all construction activities on the $7 billion project until it could undergo further review.
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