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Senator pauses bipartisan permitting reform talks after Trump administration stop-work orders on offshore wind
Summary
An unnamed senator announced a pause in bipartisan permitting reform negotiations, citing repeated Trump administration stop-work orders on offshore wind projects — including a court-overturned order on Revolution Wind and a new Dec. 22 order — and said litigation and implementation uncertainty undermined confidence in enactment.
An unnamed senator told colleagues on the Senate floor that they had "declared a pause" in negotiations on a bipartisan permitting reform bill, citing repeated stop-work orders the Trump administration has issued for offshore wind projects and ongoing litigation that, the senator said, makes faithful implementation unlikely.
The senator said the Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island — described in the remarks as a roughly $4,000,000,000 investment that was "north of 80% complete" — had been forced to stop work by a White House order that a federal judge later found to be invalid on Sept. 22. The administration did not file an appeal within the 60-day window, the senator said, and work resumed; the senator added that a second stop-work order, dated Dec. 22, was later issued without explanation and was attached to the senator's remarks as an exhibit.
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