{"id":78157,"date":"2025-12-22T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:45:09","slug":"trump-admin-scraps-5-offshore-wind-farms-including-new-york-project-citing-national-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78157\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin scraps 5 offshore wind farms \u2014 including New York project \u2014 citing \u2018national security risks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The US Interior Department announced Monday that it was immediately pausing leases for five offshore wind farms \u201cdue to national security risks\u201d identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.<\/p>\n<p>The renewable energy projects included the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/24\/opinion\/nantucket-wind-farm-wreck-reveals-the-costs-of-green-energy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island-headquartered Vineyard Wind 1<\/a>, Revolution Wind, and Sunrise Wind, a commercial wind farm in Virginia and New York City\u2019s Empire Wind \u2014 several of which had gotten either funding or regulatory boosts from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37994005\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/138-v236-15mw-wind-turbine-17083994.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of multiple wind turbines in a wind farm at sea.\" class=\"wp-image-37994005\"  \/>The projects were scrapped due to unspecified national security risks. Empire Wind \/ Vestas Wind Systems A\/S<\/p>\n<p>Unclassified reports have previously cited radar interference, also known as \u201cclutter,\u201d prompting false alarms due to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/17\/opinion\/dont-believe-kathy-hochuls-all-too-cute-claims-to-have-u-turned-on-climate-clampdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the movement of massive turbine<\/a> blades and the highly reflective towers\u201d of the wind farms, the Interior Department noted in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, radar would also \u201cmiss actual targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime duty of the United States government is to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/17\/opinion\/dont-believe-kathy-hochuls-all-too-cute-claims-to-have-u-turned-on-climate-clampdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">protect the American people<\/a>,\u201d Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration will always prioritize the security of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The US Interior Department announced Monday that it was immediately pausing leases for five offshore wind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18540,9,24,55,54,56,87,2157,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-78157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-interior-department","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-renewable-energy","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}