“The Trump administration’s ridiculous effort to halt offshore wind projects – this time up and down the east coast – will bring good tidings for his fossil fuel allies (not to mention a sleigh-full of billable hours for lawyers) and nothing but a lump of coal for Americans struggling to pay their electric bills and the thousands of union workers he’s kicking off the job right before the holidays. The New York projects alone would inject more than 1.7 gigawatts of clean, reliable, stable energy – enough to power more than 1.1 million homes. Stopping these projects now – when energy demand is rising and the president himself is claiming there is an energy emergency – makes no sense. The national security objections brought by the administration are absurd and we know that this attempt, like all those before it, will fail. We thank Governor Hochul for standing up to this, and call on the entire New York congressional delegation to fight this order and get these projects back online and the workers back on the job as soon as possible.”
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