TotalEnergies has agreed to what’s essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced Monday.
Trump personally hates wind energy. So he paid them off either way our tax dollars.
He could care less about cancer research. So ;
Based on 2025–2026 reports, the Trump administration proposed, and in some cases implemented, significant cuts to cancer research, including a 38-40% reduction (roughly
$
1 to $3
billion) in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. These initiatives also targeted the termination of over 1,800 grants and targeted, for example, the CDC’s chronic disease prevention.
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Ill-Possible4420 on
So we’re paying them $1,000,000,000 in tax payer money to NOT build energy generation, during Trump’s fake but now potentially real “energy emergency”?
He’s the worst negotiator ever.
Appropriate-Claim385 on
Divorcing itself from our Idiocracy was the right decision. There is no telling what restrictions and revenge the orange turd would try to impose. Like the rest of the world, TotalEnergies is distancing itself from the U.S. as fast as they can.
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**From The Associated Press:**
The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from [two U.S. offshore wind leases](https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-c0ac1e447c93126327f1922327921aa0) as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.
TotalEnergies has agreed to what’s essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced Monday.
The Trump administration has tried to halt offshore wind construction, but [federal judges overturned those orders](https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-lawsuits-new-york-orsted-f3b2e9b4bca0d01e45c5b7ab372ae0c4). Environmental groups denounced the TotalEnergies deal as an alternate way to block wind projects. President Donald Trump has gone [all in on fossil fuels](https://apnews.com/article/oil-iran-war-energy-trump-strait-hormuz-59cda050482d78183c7b9fa20825659f), which he says is the way to lower costs for families, increase reliability and help the U.S. maintain global leadership in [artificial intelligence](https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/).
Read more: [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-company-stops-us-offshore-172230712.html?ncid=redditnewsus](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-company-stops-us-offshore-172230712.html?ncid=redditnewsus)
Trump personally hates wind energy. So he paid them off either way our tax dollars.
He could care less about cancer research. So ;
Based on 2025–2026 reports, the Trump administration proposed, and in some cases implemented, significant cuts to cancer research, including a 38-40% reduction (roughly
$
1 to $3
billion) in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. These initiatives also targeted the termination of over 1,800 grants and targeted, for example, the CDC’s chronic disease prevention.
WIRED
So we’re paying them $1,000,000,000 in tax payer money to NOT build energy generation, during Trump’s fake but now potentially real “energy emergency”?
He’s the worst negotiator ever.
Divorcing itself from our Idiocracy was the right decision. There is no telling what restrictions and revenge the orange turd would try to impose. Like the rest of the world, TotalEnergies is distancing itself from the U.S. as fast as they can.
fucking insanity