Trump halts another wind project

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WIND

• Ørsted’s shares fell 17% this morning after the Trump administration ordered a halt to construction of its Revolution Wind project. (CNBC)

CLEAN ENERGY

• Developers have canceled $18.6 billion in renewables projects in 2025, and announcements of new clean energy investments have fallen 20% so far this year compared to the same period in 2024. (Financial Times)

• Michigan solar contractors say they’re seeing a rush of customers looking to install rooftop projects before lucrative federal tax credits end later this year. (MLive)

• The Solar Energy Industries Association urges U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to rescind new restrictions on clean energy development on federal lands, calling them ​“discriminatory permitting treatment.” (E&E News)

OIL & GAS

• A peer-reviewed study finds deaths and illnesses stemming from oil and gas-related air pollution disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latino communities. (Los Angeles Times)

NUCLEAR

• A Virginia county board unanimously approves a permit for Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ planned 400 MW nuclear fusion facility, which would be the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion plant if the company clears the considerable barriers to building it. (Virginia Business)

GRID

• The Grain Belt Express transmission project has pitted Chicago-based Invenergy, the country’s largest privately held renewable energy generator, against landowners fighting to keep the project off their property. (Chicago Tribune)

EFFICIENCY

• Stronger energy efficiency requirements in Michigan’s building codes are on hold as homebuilders sue the state claiming the rules would be too costly and that the agency has violated the rulemaking process. (Great Lakes Echo)

NEW FROM CANARY 

• Trump admin halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm — Clare Fieseler

• Trump admin blocks funds for farmers who want solar — Kari Lydersen

• Trump admin’s new anti-renewables rule rooted in fossil-fuel misinformation — Kathiann M. Kowalski

• US solar plant construction is on a record-breaking spree — for now — Julian Spector

• Clean energy is getting its own national day of action. It’s about time. — Alison F. Takemura

• Why power bills are rising — and why that’s not changing soon — Kathryn Krawczyk