Amid energy crisis, administration uses tax dollars to scuttle renewable energy projects

The war with Iran and its broader effects have caused shocks and chaos across the energy industry, offering a timely reminder that it’s in Americans’ interest to embrace renewables as quickly and as robustly as possible, not only because they’re cleaner and cheaper, but also to help shield U.S. consumers from international turmoil.

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It’s a basic idea the Trump administration doesn’t want to understand.

Last month, the Republican administration announced it had agreed to pay a foreign company almost $1 billion in American taxpayer money to abandon two wind farm projects that would have produced enough electricity to power more than 1.3 million homes and businesses across New York, New Jersey and North Carolina.

At the administration’s insistence, the company will instead proceed with different energy projects that will cost more and pollute more — or put another way, thanks to a model imposed by Donald Trump, American consumers will pay for the privilege of paying more to turn on the lights, all while polluting our own air during an energy crisis.

This month, it happened again. The New York Times reported: