Trump admin to allow NY offshore wind project to continue: Hochul
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The Trump administration will allow a major offshore wind project that will deliver power to New York to continue, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) said Monday.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum halted the project last month, claiming that the Biden administration did not adequately review it.

But, Hochul said in a Monday evening post on X that she managed to “save” the project by working with the administration. 

“1,500 union jobs. 500,000 homes powered by wind. That’s what Empire Wind 1 will deliver,” Hochul wrote. 

“I’ve been working with President @realDonaldTrump to save this project & today learned we’ve been successful. Grateful for his partnership on projects that create jobs here in New York,” she added.

The Trump administration has generally been hostile to climate action and has targeted wind energy in particular, with Trump on his first day in office signing an executive order that barred the government from auctioning off the rights to build wind farms offshore and also temporarily blocked new rights for wind on public lands.

But the decision to issue a stop-work order was seen as a further escalation, halting a project already in progress.

The president has repeatedly bashed offshore wind, complaining about the impacts to birds and views and even baselessly claiming in 2019 that wind power noise can cause cancer. 

At the same time, however, he has declared a national energy emergency and says the nation needs to produce more power.

Empire Wind 1 would be expected to deliver 810 megawatts of power into Brooklyn, enough to power 500,000 New York homes, according to the project’s website.

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