BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 27, 2025
President Donald Trump has called wind turbines costly and ugly. With a stroke of his pen, he also added a new roadblock to Maine’s quest to meet its climate goals. By signing a first-day executive order that halts offshore wind lease sales and pauses permitting for both onshore and offshore wind projects, the new president has potentially upended Maine’s statutory target of using 100 percent clean energy by 2040. The state’s plan to do so relies on installing 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind by that same year.