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Trump admin lifts hold on offshore wind farm, doesn’t explain why | Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody's explaining why it ended.
Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody’s explaining why it ended.
On Monday, the developer of a large offshore wind farm being built off the coast of New York announced that the federal government had lifted a hold it had placed on the project roughly a month ago. The government never fully enunciated its justification for the hold and hasn't yet commented on the fact that it had been lifted, although there is some hint that it was coupled to a reconsideration of a cancelled natural gas pipeline. A Fox News article published a few days later suggests that a review by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "found the Empire Wind approval process relied on rushed, outdated, and incomplete scientific and environmental analysis."
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