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Donald Trump’s crusade against offshore wind just got more serious

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Donald Trump has painted offshore wind as an environmental bogeyman since the campaign trail, falsely linking proposed projects to whale deaths without evidence.

The US lags far behind Europe and China in deploying offshore wind, even though it has more potential than many other nations to harness the resource from its vast coastlines.

Offshore wind could meet up to a quarter of the nation’s power needs by 2050 .