Oklahoma Gov. Stitt criticizes Trump for shutting down wind energy projects

Source: BY MAX REGO, The Hill • Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2025

 

FILE – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivers his State of the State address on Feb. 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper ticketed a tribal citizen with a current Otoe-Missouria Tribe license plate for failing to pay state taxes, prompting an outcry from tribal leaders who call it the latest example of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s increasing hostility toward Native Americans. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) criticized the Trump administration for canceling wind energy projects on Tuesday.

Since President Trump returned to office in January, his administration has halted approvals of green energy projects across the country, including wind farms.

“You cannot weaponize these things and just for political purposes put your thumb on the scale,” Stitt told Semafor’s Ben Smith at the outlet’s “Powering America’s Future” event.

On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order barring the federal government from auctioning off the rights to build offshore wind farms. The directive also temporarily blocked the construction of wind farms on public lands.

But on Monday, a federal judge ruled that the Interior Department, Commerce Department, Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers had illegally suspended the wind energy authorizations.

As of the end of April, Oklahoma had more than 12,700 megawatts of wind capacity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Last year, the Sooner State was third, behind Texas and Iowa, in the amount of electricity generated from wind — accounting for roughly 9 percent of the country’s wind-powered electricity, the EIA adds.

Oklahoma’s largest wind energy farm, the Traverse Wind Project, has 999 megawatts of generating capacity and 356 turbines.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment on Stitt’s remarks.