July 17, 2026
Trump’s actions will kill more than 30,000 jobs and raise energy costs
“Dismantling the burgeoning offshore wind industry now and creating broader uncertainty for investment in cheap, clean energy will have consequences for decades to come.”
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), alongside Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Angus King (I-Maine), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s efforts to kill offshore wind energy projects. The lawmakers pressed four offshore wind companies about the lease buyout agreements.
“At a time when gas prices have spiked by an average of more than $1 dollar per gallon due to the President’s war in Iran and electricity prices are rising nearly twice as fast as inflation, clean energy offers a critical opportunity to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and relieve costs for people across the country,” wrote the senators. “Dismantling the burgeoning offshore wind industry now and creating broader uncertainty for investment in cheap, clean energy will have consequences for decades to come.”
The Trump administration has agreed to pay the four companies more than $2.7 billion in taxpayer funding to abandon projects that could have delivered energy to millions of homes in New England and created tens of thousands of jobs across the country.
“These projects were poised not only to advance U.S. leadership in clean energy technology and generation capacity but also to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state investment in research and development, port upgrades, workforce development, and community benefit agreements,” the senators continued.
The senators called on the companies to turn over internal communications and posed a series of questions: whether the Administration had raised legitimate national security concerns, whether the companies had struck a deal with the Department of the Interior involving a pledge to invest in fossil fuel projects, and whether any conditions were attached to the payouts.
The letters were also signed by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Senator Warren has long advocated for bringing down energy costs for American families:
- On January 27, 2026, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after a federal judge stayed the Trump administration’s December 22 order halting the ongoing construction and operation of Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind project serving Massachusetts
- On January 13, 2026, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released a new 19-page report today laying out how the Trump administration’s attacks on clean energy are hurting Massachusetts residents, including through higher energy costs, thousands of lost jobs, and billions of dollars of investments withdrawn from the Commonwealth’s economy.
- On April 11, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) joined the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation—Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), and Bill Keating (D-Mass.)—in writing to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pressing him to explain the sudden firing of federal staff responsible for administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the impacts to Massachusetts families who depend on the program to stay safe, healthy, and housed.
- On February 27, 2025, Senator Warren advocated for S.J. Res. 10 that would end President Trump’s national energy emergency, which is driving up energy costs for New Englanders by cancelling offshore wind projects.
- On February 20, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) proposed 16 amendments to protect Massachusetts residents from Republican budget cuts, including cuts to offshore wind.
