This has nothing to do with national security, or trump, or anything else in the past few years other than that being the hook some slimy editor uses to get your eyeball dollars to their website.

This is just another round of a fight that's been happening for over 20yr now.

Wind farms in this area have been a constant political football. Regardless of the pretext the real story is that the people who have a view they want to protect, the tourism industry and the hippie/nature/biology types are on the no-wind side and the climate types, greenies, domestic energy and big business types are on the other. Sometimes one side wins, sometimes another side wins. But nothing ever gets built.

I am from Denmark and there is windmills everywhere. They are really dominant when you are driving around in the countryside and it is ok. Has gotten used to seeing then pop up everywhere past many years. The only thing that annoys me are the windmills they have placed in the ocean. The really spoil the view and they could have placed them beyound the horizon. I suspect the reason why they are not beyond the horizon is due to marketing. Denmark is a huge manufactor of windmills and I suspect the government and those manufactors decided to place so they could be seen from the shore in order to put the windmill on display. When they first start to build them not many countries had these large windmills and a marketing show room was needed and ruining the ocean view was deemed a nesseary evil. I am all for renewable energy, but pretty are windmills not

I doubt it is about ads as much as it is about politics. From NPR's editorial stance, Trump is an a priori bad. Therefore, all coverage needs to be framed to justify their starting premise.

It isn't so different from the previous administration's regulatory uncertainty around drilling permits. The allegedly pro-biz anti-regulation Republicans like gov regulation here, while the pro-regulation Democrats don't like it. If anything, it lays bare the hypocrisy of both sides. NPR is just along for the ride to once again tell us, "Trump bad".

The problem with these partisan sources is that even if there were a deeper rationalization for killing the project with regulations, such as a valid national security situation, we wouldn't expect NPR to cover it. Looking elsewhere I didn't find much.

>"The bureau is seeking to protect U.S. national security and prevent "interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas," Giacona said.