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How Donald Trump blew the offshore wind industry off course

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President Donald Trump is waging a war on windmills, attempting to kill projects that are already underway.

Trump ’s actions are putting tens of billions of dollars of investment at risk as developers try to forge ahead with the first batch of commercial-scale projects to break ground in the US .

The cloud of economic uncertainty around wind power could cast a shadow over the industry.

Norwegian energy company Equinor says it's considering legal action against the US government.

Dominion Energy and Ørsted say their offshore wind farms are more likely to be affected by the president's actions.

The industry has also been hit by a 20 percent tariff on imports from the EU , where the US gets most offshore wind components.

Offshore turbines provided about 4 percent of Europe ’s electricity last year .

China is the leading market for offshore wind, home to more than half of global offshore capacity added last year . Turbine failures are rare, luckily, but recent tariff threats have created turbulence.

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