Interior Secretary Doug Burgum paused the construction of the Empire Wind project in New York as part of the administration’s latest salvo against the wind industry. 

Burgum announced Wednesday on X that, in consultation with the Commerce Department, he is directing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt immediately all construction activities on Empire Wind, a major development south of Long Island. Burgum added that the project would undergo further permitting review because the Biden administration seemed to have rushed through the approval.