NY’s offshore wind project resumes after Trump’s stop work order
Gothamist • • business
Key Points:
- A U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction allowing Norwegian firm Equinor to resume construction on its Empire 1 offshore wind project off New York, reversing a Trump administration work stoppage citing vague national security concerns.
- Equinor's lawsuit against the Department of the Interior’s suspension order will continue, while the White House dismissed wind energy as “the scam of the century.”
- The work halt also affected Orsted’s Sunrise wind project, which is seeking a similar injunction; a related injunction was recently granted for a wind project off Connecticut and Rhode Island.
- New York’s attorney general filed a lawsuit calling the federal stop order “arbitrary and capricious,” with Governor Kathy Hochul condemning the repeated legal battles
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