Press Mention Christian Science Monitor March 27, 2026
SACE Quoted
Why the US will pay a French company nearly $1 billion to give up wind farm plans
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The Trump administration has agreed to pay French energy company TotalEnergies $928 million to abandon plans for two offshore wind farms off New Jersey and North Carolina. The deal represents an escalation of the administration's campaign against offshore wind, which it claims poses national security and cost concerns. Environmental advocates, including SACE executive director Stephen A. Smith, argue the move undermines clean energy development and climate action.
This is as much an attack on planet Earth relative to its ecological health as it is an attack on this particular technology
Stephen A. Smith
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