In April, the Trump administration’s interior secretary halted Empire Wind, a $5 billion dollar wind farm project off the coast of New York. The wind farm is 30% complete, according to Equinor, an energy company based in Norway who is working on the project. Now, the ban has lifted the stop-work order, and the construction work , which is expected to provide power for half a million homes beginning in 2027, can resume. Thousands of union jobs were provided initially for work on the wind farm, and should now resume. The project is going forward because a compromise between the wind project and a suspended gas pipeline has been reached. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he was encouraged that New York Governor Kathy Hochul will now allow the gas pipeline to move forward.
Read the full story by Nichola Groom and Nora Bull for Reuters, published May 20, 2005, here: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/equinor-says-us-lifts-stop-work-order-new-york-offshore-wind-farm-2025-05-19/
