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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey

States vow to fight Trump official’s stop-work order on offshore wind farm

Men and women in neon yellow safety vests and white hard hats walk along construction equipment and a wind turbine.
Wind turbine components at the Revolution Wind construction hub in Providence, Rhode Island, on 13 June 2024. Photograph: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut promised on Saturday to fight a Trump administration order halting work on a nearly complete wind farm off their coasts that was expected to be operational next year.

The Revolution Wind project was about 80% complete, with 45 of its 65 turbines already installed, according to the Danish wind farm developer Ørsted, when the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sent the firm a letter on Friday ordering it to “halt all ongoing activities”.

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