The owners of Revolution Wind said the Trump administration's reasons for stopping work on its Rhode Island offshore wind farm were 'factually incorrect' and only…
The owners of Revolution Wind said the Trump administration's reasons for stopping work on its Rhode Island offshore wind farm were "factually incorrect" and only disclosed after it had ordered a halt to the project, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
The filing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is part of a lawsuit brought earlier this month by joint venture partners Orsted and Skyborn Renewables challenging a stop-work order issued to Revolution Wind by the Department of the Interior in August.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized wind energy as ugly, unreliable, and expensive, and his administration is leaning on multiple federal agencies to rein in wind development.
Revolution Wind is seeking a preliminary injunction to restart work on the project. A hearing is scheduled for next week.
The August stop-work order from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said the project was being halted due to unspecified national security concerns.
But in a reply to Revolution Wind's complaint last week, the administration for the first time publicly offered more detail on its reasoning, saying the project had
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