Saturday, October 11, 2025

Interior Cancels Largest Solar Project in North America

It's the Trump administration's latest move to slow or block major clean energy projects.

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"Energy prices are likely to rise the most in states that have not prioritized clean energy". Glad to see NYT making the point I've been making for a decade+. Cheap energy is clean energy. And it's the economic issues that threaten incumbents, not the cleanliness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o ...

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-- Sean Casten (@seancasten.bsky.social) Oct 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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I defy anyone to find the rationality behind this.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-11 08:20 AM

This is the latest move by the nefarious Dummkopf Trumpf junta to slow or block clean energy projects as they enrich the fossil fuel industry while accelerating planetary extinction. Meanwhile, China continues to lead the world in wind and solar power generation, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined. China also activated the world's first commercial thorium-powered nuclear reactor, marking a major breakthrough in safe and sustainable energy.

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Gut arbet, Libertarians, Republicans, and other Dummkopf Trumpf supporters!

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-11 12:38 PM

Meanwhile this weeks auction of leases for coal mining in Montana was a disaster, resulting in the cancellation of lease sales in Wyoming. This result begs the question of why doesn't anyone want to mine for beautiful clean coal? Asking for a badly dressed fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat ...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-11 01:06 PM

This will help keep electricity prices rising, teaching the poor and the middle class not to make Bad Life Choices.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-11 01:13 PM

Private industry utilities or investors are more than welcome to build all the solar, wind and geothermal that they want and the govt will not stop them.

#5 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-11 03:43 PM

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