Orsted sues to block Trump administration from killing offshore wind farm


Attendees throughout a media tour of the Revolution Wind building hub on the Port of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024.

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The Danish renewable vitality firm Orsted sued the Trump administration on Thursday to forestall it from blocking the completion of a wind farm off the coast of New England.

The Interior Department abruptly ordered Orsted on August 22 to halt building on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The totally permitted venture is 80% full and would supply sufficient energy for greater than 350,000 properties throughout each states.

Orsted requested the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to put aside the stop-work order, calling it “unlawful” and “issued in bad faith.”

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