{"id":214854,"date":"2025-10-10T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:59:08","slug":"trump-officials-cancel-major-solar-project-in-latest-hit-to-renewable-energy-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214854\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> has killed a huge proposed solar power project<\/a> in Nevada<\/a> that would have been one of the largest in the world, indicating that the White House plans to attack not only wind power but all renewable energy.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) changed the status of the Esmeralda 7<\/a> project to say its environmental review has been \u201ccancelled<\/a>\u201d, the climate publication Heatmap first reported<\/a>. The agency provided no explanation and did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The super project in southern Nevada was set to cover 185 sq miles \u2013 a footprint close to the size of Las Vegas \u2013 and include seven solar projects proposed by different companies, including NextEra Energy<\/a> Resources, Leeward Renewable Energy, Arevia Power and Invenergy. Together, the network of solar panels and batteries was set to produce 6.2 gigawatts of energy, or enough to power nearly 2m homes.<\/p>\n

The developers\u2019 joint proposals were permitted<\/a> by Joe Biden. Even once Donald Trump<\/a> re-entered the White House this year, the process appeared to be moving forward<\/a> when his Bureau of Land Management advanced a draft environmental impact statement. But the process has since come to a standstill, with BLM failing to issue a final environmental impact statement or record of decision for the project.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted NextEra Energy Resources, Leeward Renewable Energy, Arevia Power and Invenergy for comment.<\/p>\n

In an executive order on day one, Trump signed an executive order directing a pause on new renewable energy authorizations for federally owned land and water. Then in February he appointed<\/a> Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Colorado-based oil industry trade group Western Energy Alliance, to head the Bureau of Land Management, which manages a quarter of a billion acres of public land concentrated in western states.<\/p>\n

In July, as part of an attempt to win support for his tax and spending bill, Trump issued another order<\/a> aimed at halting renewable projects<\/a>, which called on the Department of the Interior to review its policies that affect wind and solar, and gave the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, final decision-making power on whether such projects could proceed.<\/p>\n

The following month, the president said his administration would not approve solar or wind power projects. \u201cWe will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,\u201d he posted on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cThe days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has killed a huge proposed solar power project in Nevada that would have been one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-214854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}