The Department of Transportation has moved to withdraw and terminate approximately $679 million worth of funding for what the agency described as “doomed” offshore wind projects, in the Trump administration’s latest move to crack down on the green energy resource.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday that the funding will be redirected from infrastructure projects that would have supported offshore wind development and instead will be used to boost the maritime industry.
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Duffy said in a statement.
Former President Joe Biden and Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg “bent over backwards to use transportation dollars for their Green New Scam agenda while ignoring the dire needs of our shipbuilding industry,” he continued.
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