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It happened again. For the second time this year, the Trump administration has halted the construction of a massive offshore wind farm being built to power blue states.

On Friday, the acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, ordered the Danish wind developer Ørsted to stop all construction on the nearly complete Revolution Wind offshore project so the federal government can “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States.” Giacona, a former lobbyist for offshore oil and gas companies , did not specify the nature of those concerns.

The move echoes an April order from the Interior Department that stopped all offshore work on New York’s Empire Win

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