Trump targets solar, wind with tighter permitting in another blow to renewables
Doug Burgum speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on 15 July 2025
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The Sun and Wind Projects, which need to obtain federal leave, will face even closer investigations by the Trump administration, and the interior secretary Doug Burgum has now made a final decision that they are moving on the US lands.
Burgum will now have the “final examination” of the federal leave process for leases, transition rights, construction plans and internal part of the interior. internal note It was published by the department on Thursday.
The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that after years of attack by Biden administration, “coal and natural gas” “for leaning the playground”, he said. The main lobby group of the renewable industry, the American Clean Power Association, said the action means politically motivated congestion.
“The Ministry of the Interior adds three new unnecessary processes and unprecedented political examination to the construction of domestic energy projects,” ACP CEO Jason Grummet said. He said.
“This is not the surveillance. He said.
Stephanie Bosh, spokesman for the Solar Energy Industries Association, adds bureaucracy and bureaucracy to slow down electricity generation growth at a time when demand from indoor and artificial intelligence data centers increases.
“This administration’s energy policy continues to support certain technologies instead of advancement of real American energy dominance,” Bosh said in a statement. He said.
The last blow to the renewable energy industry by the Trump administration and the Republicans in the Congress. President Donald Trump’s great beautiful Bill law terminates the basic tax incentives that support the growth of wind and solar projects in the USA
Trump Published an executive order Shortly after the legislation called to interior spaces to eliminate the preferential treatment for wind and solar plants compared to reliable, sending energy sources, which are reference to coal, natural gas and nuclear energy.
According to ACP, approximately 5% of solar projects and 1% of wind projects are included in the federal land.
