In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trump’s clean energy war

September 3, 2025

AMES, Iowa — President Donald Trump’s bid to kill wind power is straining the clean energy industry — and imperiling GOP lawmakers whose communities have seen wind as an economic boon.

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