The Trump administration has approved wind projects in Maine and South Dakota in an attempt to ease resistance among Senate Democrats to advancing a bipartisan permitting reform bill that could prove essential to President Donald Trump’s ambitions for energy and artificial intelligence.
A White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Thursday morning that the Department of War had cleared its “first tranche of wind projects” that were still under review. The administration’s efforts to stall wind projects had led key Democratic negotiators to withhold support for the infrastructure bill.
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