Canceled in the Wind: How Trump’s Interior Axed Idaho’s Lava Ridge and Wrote a Playbook to Choke U.S. Clean Energy
How a billion-dollar wind farm became the first casualty in a federal campaign to strangle clean power
On August 6, 2025, the Trump administration abruptly canceled the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a billion-dollar renewable energy development in southern Idaho that had already cleared years of federal review, been scaled back to address local concerns, and won formal approval from the Biden administration just eight months earlier.
Interior Secretary Doug Bu…
