Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/trump-administration-halts-revolution-wind.html

https://archive.ph/FdO3D

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
By Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and Maxine Joselow
Aug. 22, 2025 Updated 9:54 p.m. ET

The Trump administration on Friday ordered that all construction stop on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is already mostly built.

The 65-turbine project had obtained all necessary permits from the Biden administration, and nearly 70 percent of the turbines have been installed. The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring.

Matthew Giacona, the acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, issued a letter on Friday to Orsted, the Danish company building the wind farm, ordering it to “halt all ongoing activities” because of unspecified issues.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, said the state was “evaluating all legal options to protect Connecticut’s interests.”

“Trump wants to mothball billions of dollars in investment and cancel one of the best new sources of American-made, renewable energy,” Mr. Tong said. “Trump and his enablers will own the resulting cost increases for ratepayers.”

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[Blues Heron]

1. Trump is such an evil POS

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Fuck him

Finish it and get it operating.

What's he gonna do? Sue?

[womanofthehills]

3. The largest windfarm in US is currently being built in NM

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It will provide 3500 mw of electricity and will be the largest windfarm in the Western Hemisphere and produce enough electricity to power over 3 million homes.

Good thing most of it is on private land.

[Cha]

4. Can you imagine being in that business

with everything invested and being told by the Traitor of the US.. to STOP.

[travelingthrulife]

10. And WHY is Trump allowed to do this? There is no emergency.

[Disaffected]

5. A sad situation but

I imagine they know how TC Energy (Keystone XL) must have felt. I don't know how any of this could be legal.

[newdeal2]

6. Just ignore them and finish it

That’s what Trump does all the time and he suffers no consequences.

[BWdem4life]

7. Then he sends in the NG to shut them down?

Insane

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "BOEM is seeking to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests" - total BS

It's a frigging wind farm, being built by a Danish company - you know, an NATO ally.

Unless some idiot has said "hey, Greenland's part of the Kingdom of Denmark!" ...

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Coal for you, Connecticut.

King Taco has spoken!

[Emile]

11. He is so stupid.

[womanofthehills]

12. He hates wind farms since one was built near his golf course

He’s worried about the environmental impacts of wind turbines but not of fracking. 🙃🙃🙃

When did Trump ever even care about an environmental impact? What about the environmental impact of leveling Gaza?