"Thanks to @POTUS, we are shutting down unreliable and costly green energy projects so that we can achieve American Energy Dominance, creating jobs and paying down the national debt in the process!" Burgum wrote May 2 in another post on X.
Wind power accounted for 10.2% of the nation's electric power as of 2023, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
"The President's attempts to stop homegrown wind energy development directly contradict his claims that there is a growing need for reliable domestic energy," Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said in a statement. "My colleagues and I will continue to challenge this administration's unlawful actions to chill investment and growth of this critical industry."