On Aug. 22, President Donald Trump halted construction of the massive offshore wind farm Revolution Wind , located off the coast of Rhode Island.

Citing an executive order by Trump aimed to slow the expansion of offshore wind, Ørsted , the Danish company that is a partner on the joint venture developing the project, was ordered by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to stop all ongoing offshore activities related to the 704-megawatt wind farm that has contracts to deliver power to Rhode Island and Connecticut.

This is not the first offshore wind project Trump has moved to stop. In May, his agencies ordered the New York project Empire Wind to halt construction, though work was later resumed.

The stop work order comes as Revolution Wind was nearly complete, with most of its turbin

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