{"id":72772,"date":"2026-04-28T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-administration-blocks-us-wind-energy-projects-in-switch-to-oil-and-gas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:55:26","slug":"trump-administration-blocks-us-wind-energy-projects-in-switch-to-oil-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-administration-blocks-us-wind-energy-projects-in-switch-to-oil-and-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US representatives Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin earlier this month called agreements outrageous and unlawful<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to the companies behind them if those funds are reinvested in oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>US Department of the Interior officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/interior-announces-two-historic-agreements-promote-affordable-reliable-energy\">framed the canceled agreements<\/a> as a way to \u201cpromote US energy security and affordability\u201d by funneling funds \u201caway from intermittent, higher-cost energy sources toward proven conventional solutions\u201d, in an announcement issued Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/28\/trump-administration-wind-projects\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US representatives Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin earlier this month called agreements outrageous and unlawful Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Trump administration blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-administration-blocks-us-wind-energy-projects-in-switch-to-oil-and-gas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}