The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a letter sent to Orsted, saying the stop-work order seeks “to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States and prevention of interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas.”
It did not specify what those concerns are.
“You may not resume activities until BOEM informs you that BOEM has completed its necessary review,” the letter added.
“Americans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and built to last — not experimental and expensive wind projects that are proven failures,” Aubrie Spady, deputy press secretary for the Interior Department, told The Hill in an emailed statement on Monday.
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A group of current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees warned Monday that the Trump administration is weakening the disaster response agency’s capacity and preventing it from carrying out its mission.
The operator of New England’s electric grid warned Monday that the Trump administration’s move to halt a nearly completed offshore wind farm will cause risks to the reliability of the electric grid.
Unemployment claims in the Los Angeles metropolitan area climbed by 12 percent to 17 percent due to the devastating effects of the Palisades and Eaton blazes, which ripped through the region this past January, a new report has found.
A federal judge on Monday doubled down that the Trump administration is “absolutely forbidden” from removing mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the U.S., for now. Read more
