Top Democratic permitting reform negotiators are staying the course despite nonstop attacks against wind energy from President Donald Trump and a reported plan to undermine the industry.
Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) have been threatening to pull the plug again on the talks if the administration continues going after renewable energy projects.
But Whitehouse on Tuesday didn’t seem to put too much weight on reporting from The New York Times that the administration was considering paying TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to give up two offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina.
Whitehouse called the development as “just more selling out the public for the fossil fuel industry.”
