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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Well that’s good news, at least.

    And honestly, that was such a stupid fucking hill for him to want to die on - and he wants to die on a whole fucking lot of stupid hills.

    • IratePirate@feddit.org
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      I don’t care about the hill part. Get on with the dying already!

  • jaykrown@lemmy.world
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    That’s this universe we live in, the powers that be actively fighting progress, yet progress still is made. I’m grateful to those who progress technology and apply it to benefit humanity. The Drump administration just keeps losing.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      As long as the progress is profitable.

      • jaykrown@lemmy.world
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        Something that may be profitable to some may be costly to others. Like solar power is to coal companies.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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          They don’t care about us in those games they play.

      • relativestranger@feddit.nl
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        ‘profitable’ for him, as in bribes and ‘donations’ from specific persons to allow such projects in specific places, and for specific purposes.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      They’re not really fighting progress, they’re fighting whatever they don’t own that’s competing with what they do own. Whether that’s progress or convention doesn’t matter to them. At some point if the other thing wins they switch tactics and start buying it.

    • tomiant@piefed.social
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      Depends on the fucking technology doesn’t it? Most of it is capitalism slop. WE HAVE REINVENTED THE FORK! BY REMOVING A PRONG!

      (it’s been shown according to a study that I found in my anus that three prongs are superior and makes you healthier and saves me 25% on the production cost, isn’t capitalism JUST FUCKING DANDY how did we even invent things before it?)

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    And then Orange will claim they support wind energy when the energy cost drop.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      By then they technically will support wind energy because they’ll have bought a big share of it. That’s what this is always about - support what you own, fight what you don’t own. If the other thing wins, buy the other thing.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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      There has never been a bigger windbag, so he may have a legitimate claim in there somewhere.

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    This is bullshit considering this just dropped today:

    • https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.84rc.Cy9uL0ArTjhK
    • https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-administration-pay-765-mln-scrap-four-more-offshore-wind-leases-2026-06-17/
    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      He’ll pave over the ocean like he did the Rose Garden.

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    It truly was quixotic.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Nah, just shifting gears. The old fight was to stop it, the new fight will be to own it.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      That’s been the oil company’s strategy constantly. Repress the technology as king as they can until it’s inevitable, and then all of a sudden their green and eco friendly

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    Something…something…oil prices

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