New York Times: White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind

Sept 3 – 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. At the Health and Human Services Department, for instance, officials are studying whether wind turbines are emitting electromagnetic fields that could harm human health. And the Defense Department is probing whether the projects could pose risks to national security. Read ON.