In a significant setback for California’s effort to build hundreds off floating offshore wind turbines in the Pacific Ocean to boost renewable energy, the Trump administration has cancelled nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for one of the state’s most high-profile projects.

On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that $426.7 million which had been approved last year by the Biden Administration to help build a new marine terminal in Humboldt Bay near Eureka with huge cranes, warehouses and wharfs to assemble and deploy the giant floating turbines along the California and Oregon coasts would be revoked.

The proposed project, the largest of its kind on the West Coast, is the latest target in Trump’s ongoing efforts to block construction of offshore wind proje

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