FRANK LASEE: Trump’s ‘Billion-Dollar Giveaway’ Actually A Refund To Kill Costly Offshore Wind

Headlines last week (NY Times, NPR, CNN) screamed that President Donald Trump was handing nearly a billion dollars to a French energy giant to cancel building offshore wind farms. The coverage was classic gotcha journalism — misleading, incomplete, and designed to fit a tired narrative. The real story is far more straightforward and sensible.