"Senate Democrats say they will walk away from talks about legislation to speed up energy and infrastructure construction unless the Trump administration reverses its latest attack on wind power.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) say they will abandon the long-held permitting reform talks after the Trump administration said Monday it would suspend leases for five major offshore wind farms that were already approved and are under construction.
“The illegal attacks on fully permitted renewable energy projects must be reversed if there is to be any chance that permitting talks resume. There is no path to permitting reform if this administration refuses to follow the law,” Heinrich and Whitehouse, the top Democrats on the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources and Environment and Public Works committees, respectively, said in a joint statement.
The Democrats had been negotiating with their Republican counterparts, Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), for months on an agreement that was expected to bolster both renewable energy and fossil fuels."
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