{"id":827687,"date":"2026-08-27T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:20:08","slug":"how-wind-projects-got-replaced-by-a-900-million-payday-to-a-trump-donors-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827687\/","title":{"rendered":"How wind projects got replaced by a $900 million payday to a Trump donor\u2019s firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KQTXQTQ5LRFPPAJSGL56PI4G5A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration\u2019s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects and boost fossil fuel energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of the president\u2019s million-dollar donors.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"URZWD46DJBFCNNUS2OSD23OASY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Behind the windfall is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwe.com\/en\/investor-relations\/financial-calendar-and-publications\/news-and-ad-hoc-announcements\/news\/news-2026-08-06\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rwe.com\/en\/investor-relations\/financial-calendar-and-publications\/news-and-ad-hoc-announcements\/news\/news-2026-08-06\/\">settlement<\/a> stipulating that German energy giant RWE will receive $1.2 billion from a federal fund on the condition that it gives up its offshore wind leases in New York, California and Louisiana and invests in unspecified oil, gas or nuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/renewable-energy\/state-activities\/Fully%20Executed%20Settlement%20Agreement%20-%20Canopy.pdf?VersionId=7RrmVtJ2DW17nxhSerVvuClME9x3hxua\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/renewable-energy\/state-activities\/Fully%20Executed%20Settlement%20Agreement%20-%20Canopy.pdf?VersionId=7RrmVtJ2DW17nxhSerVvuClME9x3hxua\">\u201cconventional energy\u201d<\/a> projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects and boost fossil fuel energy development instead is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-827687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827687","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=827687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}