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Trump administration pays nearly $1B to stop company from building an offshore wind farm

President Trump’s Department of the Interior is paying French energy company TotalEnergies almost $1 billion to stop plans to build an offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean.

Jake Bittle, staff writer at Grist, tells Here & Now‘s Robin Young why the Trump administration opposes wind energy.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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