The issue on which the world’s most dangerous man is most dangerous is the environment, especially in regard to climate change. He has infamously referred to it as a “con job.” Climate change is, in fact, the world’s biggest challenge. If we don’t deal with it, we will see a steadily warming planet, ever more catastrophes, and a global society crumbling around our ears.

Under the leadership of President Joe Biden, the U.S. was becoming a leader of climate action. His Inflation Reduction Act contained the most comprehensive climate legislation that America had seen. The law invested hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy, electric vehicles, environmental justice and more. This was part of a comprehensive climate change strategy.

That was then. Now is President Donald Trump. This president, who bears an irrational hatred of Biden, is determined to roll back everything his predecessor did and then some. He has withdrawn the U.S. from a host of international climate bodies including the Paris Climate Agreement and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on climate science. He vigorously promotes fossil fuels at home and abroad while promoting disinformation about renewable energy and climate change. He has weakened domestic climate protections, halted or delayed approvals of renewable projects, reduced the availability of weather and climate data, and defunded climate science. He is waging war.

His particular foe is wind power, in part no doubt because Biden promoted it but also because he failed to stop a wind farm that was visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland. “My goal,” he says, “is to not let any windmill be built.”

Consequently his administration has been working hard to strangle the wind industry. To date, the U.S. Interior Department has issued stop work orders on five multibillion-dollar wind farm projects off the east coast. The courts have struck down every one.

Just this week, a federal judge (nominated to the bench by Ronald Reagan) issued a preliminary injunction allowing the developer of a project off New York State to restart construction while the broader legal battle unfolds. As in the other cases, the judge was not persuaded by the government’s claim that the project constituted a national security threat. The project is already half complete and the judge stated that the stop work order had caused the developer, a Danish energy company, “irreparable harm.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul praised the decision, saying it is a “big win for New York workers, families and our future. It puts union workers back on the job, keeps billions in private investment in New York and delivers the clean, reliable power our grid needs, especially as extreme weather becomes more frequent.”

The decision is in fact a big win for all of us. The president of the world’s most powerful nation leading his country against efforts to deal with climate change poses an international threat. The global average temperature is now bumping up above 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels as the crisis intensifies.

Americans, with the help of the courts, seem to be slowly putting a leash on their delusional president. These wins on the wind front are very good indeed, but we need much much more. Trump’s war on renewables rages on.