"‘Bonkers’: DOI Letter Halts All Five In-Progress Offshore Wind Farms" [1]
"Construction will be paused for 90 days as Trump’s Department of War and Interior Department coordinate to evaluate supposed “national security” risks."
"The Interior Department announced Monday it is pausing leases for all five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in America, citing unspecified issues of national security.
Canary Media obtained a copy of a letter notifying one of the affected wind farm developers, providing new details about the move — the Trump administration’s most sweeping attempt yet to halt offshore wind construction.
A Bureau of Ocean Energy Management letter to Dominion Energy executive Joshua Bennett orders the Virginia-based utility to “suspend all ongoing activities” related to its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, a 2.6-gigawatt wind farm slated to start coming online in less than four months, for “the next 90 days for reasons of national security.”
“Based on BOEM’s initial review of this classified information, the particularized harm posed by this project can only be feasibly averted by suspension of on-lease activities,” the letter reads."
Clare Fieseler reports for Canary Media December 22, 2025. [2]
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"Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast" (New York Times) [3]