"More than a month after the Trump administration forced a nearly complete wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut to stop construction -costing the developers more than $2 million per day-the project just resumed work. On August 22, the government issued a stop-work order for the Revolution Wind project, which is designed to power 350,000 homes. It cited unspecified "national security concerns" despite years of review by federal agencies including the Department of Defense. Hundreds of workers were left idle."
"On September 22, a federal judge granted the developers a preliminary injunction to allow construction to continue. Judge Royce Lamberth, appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, said that the Trump administration's arguments were "the height of arbitrary and capricious," and noted that if construction didn't begin immediately, the project was at risk of failing completely."
A nearly complete offshore wind farm, Revolution Wind, paused construction after a stop-work order cited unspecified national security concerns, halting work and costing developers over $2 million per day. The project is designed to power 350,000 homes and had undergone years of federal review including by the Department of Defense. A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to resume work, calling the administration's arguments arbitrary and warning the project could fail if work did not restart. The project is about 80% complete, the government has 60 days to appeal, and the episode may chill future offshore wind development.
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