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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:37 PM Tuesday

Trump's order to halt offshore wind project overturned, Orsted to restart work soon



Trump’s order to halt offshore wind project overturned, Ørsted to restart work soon

CNBC | Spencer Kimball | Sep 22 2025

Key Points

A federal judge on Monday allowed Ørsted to resume construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of New England.

The Interior Department had ordered Ørsted to halt construction in August, part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the offshore wind industry.

The judge blocked Interior from enforcing the stop-work order while litigation proceeds.


Danish renewable energy company Ørsted will restart work “as soon as possible” on a wind farm off the coast of New England, after a federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a stop work order.

“Revolution Wind will resume impacted construction work as soon as possible, with safety as the top priority,” Ørsted said in a statement Monday.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ordered Ørsted on Aug. 22 to halt construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The project is fully permited and 80% complete. It would provide power for more than 350,000 homes.

Ørsted and its partner Skyborn Renewables filed a lawsuit against Interior that asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to lift the stop-work order. They argued that Interior’s order to stop construction was aribtrary, capricious, unlawful and “issued in bad faith.”...more
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/judge-orsted-revolution-wind-trump.html

Wind Turbines = Trump Repellents
"You don't need tariffs, you need a REVOLUTION"

For those stuck in the past, or those that buy the bullshit Dump spews about Wind Turbines, see this and tell a UK citizen that the turbines they see sticking out of the North Sea are "junk" - be sure to call after dark.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom

"You can fool some people sometimes
but you can't fool all the people all the time"
Robert Marley, O.M.

Fuck Dump and ignorance too

Gov. Ned Lamont on Revolution Wind project: Decision to halt was sudden, erratic and insane


Revolution Wind to resume, gov says


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