Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg overruled dozens of safety warnings about windmill projects built dangerously close to highways and train tracks, according to a bombshell report from the New York Post.
At least 33 recommendations were ignored between 2023 and 2024, a current department official said, clearing the way for turbines that could disrupt emergency and transportation communications.
Internal documents show the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications Information Administration warned one Illinois project that turbines within one to three miles of rail lines could pose “an undue risk” to train communications.
That warning was reversed without explanation after a 45-day review.
The Commerce Department later withdrew the Transportation Department’s objection, with no justification offered.
“DOT continues to review and analyze the potential for harmful interference,” the Biden administration wrote in a January 2024 letter.
The letter also claimed the agency “reserves the right to make setback recommendations” later. However, the damage had already been done, as Trending Politics reported.
The decision to override warnings came as the Biden administration ramped up green energy subsidies under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, with credits worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is now investigating the placement of these wind farms.