With an order to halt work on a wind farm off the coast of New York, the Trump administration dealt the offshore wind industry a damaging blow that puts $28 billion of investment at risk.
On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X that he’d ordered a pause on Equinor ASA’s Empire Wind project off Long Island. The project was already well underway – permits and supplies lined up, $3 billion in project financing agreed and the construction phase had begun.