Trump’s Energy Emergency Is Self-Fulfilling: Liam Denning

President Donald Trump’s vendetta against offshore wind power is characterized chiefly by its oddities. These range from the president’s pet theories about the technology’s supposed hazards to his attempts to shut down nearly built projects. Now, he appears to be escalating to the truly bizarre, with a reported offer to pay an offshore wind developer almost $1 billion in order to simply walk away.

This latest threat to offshore wind, coming amid a war in waters thousands of miles away that’s spiked oil prices, confirms a bigger conclusion: Just over a year after Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” he himself ...