Christina Lu
A woman stands behind a sheet of solar panel material, made up of smaller blue rectangles. Her arms are outstretched to either side to hold the panels up. She wears a hair net and a surgical mask as well as a white lab coat. The metal scaffolding of a workshop or factory floor is visible behind her.A worker produces photovoltaic modules for solar panels in a factory in Suqian, in east China’s Jiangsu province, on Jan. 23. AFP via Getty Images
Trump’s decision to abruptly stop construction at Revolution Wind—a nearly completed giant wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island—is the latest in an avalanche of moves meant to gut the U.S. wind and solar industry and dismantle renewable energy projects championed by his predecessor. The United States is the world’s biggest oil producer and exporter of natural gas, and the Trump administration has wholly embraced those fossil fuels in its bid to achieve what it has called “American energy dominance.”
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