The Trump administration issued several executive orders and memorandums on the President’s first days in office, targeting the energy industry. Key actions include halting certain new federal actions for offshore and onshore wind projects and revisiting existing programs and policies. However, the impacts of the executive actions appear to be limited thus far. Privately funded onshore wind projects sited on private lands should be generally unaffected, and there should be minimal impacts on projects involving solar, battery storage, and other non-wind renewable energy sources.
Read the full analysis by Husch Blackwell’s Megan Caldwell, Linda Walsh, and Leah Kaiser.