President Donald Trump said that the United States It will not approve solar and wind projects that damage agricultural land, claiming that they are inflating electricity prices.
The publication in Truth Social, Trump’s last attack on renewable energiescomes a day after the United States Department of Agriculture said that it was ending programs that provide financial support for clean energy in productive agricultural land.
“Any state that has built and depended on wind and solar energy mills is experiencing record increases in electricity and energy costs”Said the president. “The scam of the century! We will not approve wind energy or that farmers destroy solar energy. The stupidity days in the US are over!”
Electricity prices have increased during the last year, although experts say that causes These are factors that include a greater demand from data centers and the manufacturing industry After years of relatively flat growth.
Although the United States does not have direct control over clean energy projects built on private properties, it has wide influence on public land projectsauthority that the Government has not feared to use through broad permits reviews and other measures taken by the Department of the Interior to highlight wind and solar projects.
