Trump is losing his war on wind power
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美国俄勒冈州联邦地区法院裁定，政府须重启风电项目审批流程。自2025年8月起，国防部停止参与允许其强制开发商调整项目以避免干扰雷达的法定程序，导致全美新风电开发陷入停滞。法院认为，国防部不能以国家安全为由规避法律规定的程序。特朗普政府曾以雷达干扰构成安全风险为由阻止陆上和海上风电项目，但法院未采纳该主张，包括审查涉密报告后仍不支持。政府随后转向付费劝退开发商
On Thursday, a US District Court in Oregon ordered the US government to restart the process of approving wind projects. All new wind development in the US has been on hold since August of 2025, when the Department of Defense (DoD) stopped participating in a process that allows it to compel developers to alter projects in order to limit their interference with radar equipment. The court ruled, however, that the DoD's national security claims did not allow it to opt out of a process that is legally mandated.
The Trump administration has made many attempts to block wind development, both offshore and land based. Its attempts to stop offshore wind included the same approach at issue in this case: Claim that drone developments mean that radar interference by wind turbines creates a national security risk. The courts were not sympathetic to this claim, including in cases where judges examined a classified report that the DoD was using to justify blocking offshore wind construction. As a result, the administration has turned to paying companies not to pursue wind development.
In parallel, the government was pursuing a similar approach for onshore wind. Here, a law lays out a process for the DoD to evaluate any problems posed by wind turbines and negotiate changes to planned wind farms with the developers. As laid out in the new decision, the government simply stopped participating in this process in August 2025, first by refusing to sign off on previously negotiated agreements, and later by refusing to draft agreements entirely. Eventually, it simply refused to participate in negotiations at all. This has brought a halt to all wind development in the US.
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