White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind

The effort involves several agencies that typically have little to do with wind power, including the Health and Human Services Department.
The White House has taken the extraordinary step of instructing a half-dozen agencies to draft plans to thwart the country’s offshore wind industry as it intensifies its governmentwide attack on a source of renewable energy that President Trump has criticized as ugly, expensive and inefficient.
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser, are leading the effort, according...
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