How Trump’s War on Offshore Wind Upended a “Limitless” Future for Thousands of New England Workers

The Vineyard Wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts in May Eleonora Bianchi/The New Bedford Light On a hot July day in 2022, then-President Joe Biden gave a speech from the ruins of a coal-fired power plant on the southern coast of Massachusetts. Standing where ships once delivered coal for combustion, he said the same dock would soon launch components for wind power out to sea. He praised an Italian company’s plans to build a new factory there, set to create 250 jobs and supply American-made undersea power cables to what was then a line of offshore wind projects waiting to be built along the coast. Four years later, weeds and tall grass have reclaimed the dirt lot on which Biden spoke. The company never came.