The Trump Administration, through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has issued a stop-work order on the offshore Revolution wind project in New London.

The decision has received harsh criticism from Connecticut officials.

Gov. Ned Lamont (D) held a press conference on Monday at State Pier, which underwent major construction to facilitate the project.

Lamont said he was shocked by the decision.

“We’ve had a lot of conversations down in Washington, DC. I’ve talked about this with the President and the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of the Interior. And we don’t agree on everything, but there was a strong sense that we wanted more American-based power,” Lamont said. “We wanted power that would be affordable and would bring down the cost for consumers, especially here in

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