President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of the renewable energy industry on Wednesday, promising that his administration would not issue any approvals for new wind and solar power projects.
Trump bashed wind and solar energy in a post shared to Truth Social Wednesday morning, writing that renewable projects were driving recent increases in electricity bills.
“Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS,” Trump wrote.
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“THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” the president continued. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”
This marks the first time that Trump has directly said he would block new solar projects, previously reserving that action
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