Editor,
On Jan. 20, 2025, after signing executive orders to promote fossil fuels and withdraw support for renewable energy, Trump said: “We’re going to drill, baby, drill and do all of the things that we wanted to…We aren’t going to do the wind thing.”
I get a daily news feed that covers national and international events. I felt my blood pressure rise and a vein started throbbing above my eye when I read that our president has ordered a halt to a nearly finished wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. It would have provided electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring. The Connecticut Attorney General, William Tong, says that: “Trump and his enablers will own the resulting cost increases for taxpayers.”
Trump and his administration have been st