Trump administration ends Rhode Island offshore energy project after president railed against wind and solar

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A global green energy company on Friday announced that the Trump administration had halted its construction of an offshore wind farm being built 15 miles off Rhode Island’s coast.

Ørsted announced that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order for Revolution Wind, an extensive offshore energy project at 80% completion, according to the company. 

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