NEW: Trump Axes Massive Biden-Era Offshore Wind Farm Project

The Department of the Interior (DOI) is immediately halting all activity on a massive offshore wind farm project that was established by the Biden Administration, according to a report from the Daily Caller.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM, which falls under the DOI, is halting activity on the “Revolution Wind” project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut effective immediately. President Donald Trump has long criticized wind farm projects, pointing to their notoriously unreliable output, foreign control of key components for wind projects and environmental concerns.

In recent weeks and months, the DOI has dealt a number of significant blows to the wind energy industry, including an end to Biden-era “preferential treatment” and moving to terminate the massive Lava Ridge Wind Project in southern Idaho. The latter project was green-lit just weeks before President Trump returned to office.

“Americans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and built to last — not experimental and expensive wind projects that are proven failures,” DOI deputy press secretary Aubrie Spady told the Daily Caller. “In line with President Donald Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda, Interior is putting an immediate stop to these costly failures to deliver a stronger energy future and lower costs for American families. Like President Trump said, ‘the days of stupidity are over in the USA!’”

The Biden Administration had approved the Revolution Wind project in 2023, which is located on the federally-owned Outer Continental Shelf. Cancelling the project follows in line with the Trump Administration’s radical shift on energy policy, namely in shifting focus away from solar and wing projects in favor of traditional energy sources.

Trump signed an executive order directing the DOI to “revise any identified regulations, guidance, policies, and practices as appropriate and consistent with applicable law to eliminate any such preferences for wind and solar facilities” on July 7. The order fulfilled a popular campaign promise from the president to end his predecessor’s “green new deal” policies in favor of a “drill baby drill” agenda.

“Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS,” the president posted on Truth Social earlier this week. “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reiterated the administration’s opposition to wind farms in a social media post of his own, which noted that wind farms have depleted populations of eagles and other rare bird species. Offshore wind farms like Revolution Wind have also faced criticism for killing whales and dolphins, oftentimes from environmental groups that often support left-wing political causes and candidates.

“Wind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects,” Burgum posted on X. “[The DOI] is enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!”

The Trump administration also pulled a permit for a massive pending New Jersey offshore wind project in March.