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Vineyard Wind project under construction in Massachusetts, Revolution Wind in Rhode Island and Connecticut, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, and two projects in New York: Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind.

From the CT Mirror:
“The action marks the second time the Trump administration has attempted to halt work on Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt project that is being staged at the State Pier in New London. That project is already 85% completed, according to the developers.

In August, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order that similarly cited national security concerns. The project’s developers sued along with the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a month later a U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth issued an injunction allowing work on the project to continue.

In a statement Monday morning, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called the administration’s latest action a “brazen attempt to circumvent” the injunction.


“The project has been vetted and approved through every layer of federal and state regulatory process, including a careful review of the issues raised in this announcement,” Tong said. “Every day this project is stalled is another day of lost work, another day of unaffordable energy costs, and other day burning fossil fuels when American-made clean energy is within reach.”

The attorney general added that his office is “evaluating all legal options.”