Commentary The first offshore wind farm in the United States was supposed to have signaled a turning point in the green energy revolution. Instead, officials have spent the last five years mired in equipment failures and struggling to respond to concerns about potential environmental damage. Block Island is Solyndra all over again—except this time, wasted tax dollars won’t be the only consequence. This problematic project, and others in the works like the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, threaten to destroy the U.S. fishing industry, raise already high energy costs, and threaten precious endangered wildlife that only exist in the region. So much for “going green.” Of the Block Island farm’s five turbines, the latest eyewitness reports are that only one was functional. In the summer of 2021, the turbines were shut down after General Electric noticed stress fractures in the turbines. Though the shutdown was labeled …