{"id":22445,"date":"2025-12-26T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=22445"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:02:23","slug":"northeast-governors-demand-end-to-latest-pause-on-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=22445","title":{"rendered":"Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Rhode Island Gov, Dan McKee have written Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum demanding the immediate lifting of stop work orders for five offshore wind projects.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4YkZFMjmaT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/trump-administration-cites-radar-clutter-in-putting-new-pause-on-offshore-wind-projects\/\">Trump Administration cites radar clutter in putting new pause on offshore wind projects<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cTrump Administration cites radar clutter in putting new pause on offshore wind projects\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/trump-administration-cites-radar-clutter-in-putting-new-pause-on-offshore-wind-projects\/embed\/#?secret=OGUp99A0jv#?secret=4YkZFMjmaT\" data-secret=\"4YkZFMjmaT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The reason cited for the pause by the Administration was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/trump-administration-cites-radar-clutter-in-putting-new-pause-on-offshore-wind-projects\/\">national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.\u201d<\/a> Those risks, it seems, relate to radar clutter.<\/p>\n<p>The governors in the letter also demand a classified briefing to review the unexplained national security threats used to place the stop work orders.<\/p>\n<p>The letter notes that the targeted projects were approved after undergoing substantial federal reviews and processes, including by the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump Administration just dropped a lump of dirty coal on American families, workers, and businesses. <\/p>\n<p>Halting offshore wind projects that are nearly finished makes no sense. It\u2019s an attack on affordable, reliable American energy and the good jobs it creates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKCqZYLTIl\">pic.twitter.com\/XKCqZYLTIl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Maura Healey (@MassGovernor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MassGovernor\/status\/2003517146203292078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The four Northeast governors blast the national security claims and supposed concerns about the impacts offshore wind farms have on radar as pretexts that contradict years of reviews and established practices. They also charge that the Trump Administration is only using the rationale as a \u201cpretexual excuse to justify a predetermined outcome consistent with the President\u2019s frequently stated personal opposition to offshore wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter also warns Secretary Burgum that by blocking \u201cgigawatts of domestic clean energy, you are effectively throttling the U.S. economy and handing a strategic advantage to foreign rivals who are building power generation as fast as they can. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission\u2019s 2025 Annual Report \u2014 ironically, also released in November \u2014 found that in 2024 alone, China added new capacity equivalent to one-third of the entire United States\u2019 power grid, while the U.S. struggles to meet rising energy demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this irrational and erratic action,\u201d say the four Northeast governors, \u201cyou are not solving a national security crisis; you are creating both a national security and economic disaster. By obstructing domestic power generation, you are inviting grid failure, surrendering the industries of the future, and threatening the economy and national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pauses on the Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind projects in New York combined threaten more than 2,600 good-paying union jobs. The two projects combined will also generate nearly more than 1,700 megawatts of power, roughly 10 percent of New York City\u2019s electricity needs, meeting the growing demand for energy. Governor Hochul earlier this year successfully pushed the Trump Administration to lift a previous stop work order on the Empire Wind project.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/on.ny.gov\/4pazkv2\">HERE<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/offshore\/offshore-wind\/northeast-governors-demand-end-to-latest-pause-on-offshore-wind\/\">Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/offshore\/offshore-wind\/northeast-governors-demand-end-to-latest-pause-on-offshore-wind\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=northeast-governors-demand-end-to-latest-pause-on-offshore-wind\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Rhode Island Gov, Dan McKee have written Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum demanding the immediate lifting of stop work orders for five offshore wind projects. Trump Administration cites radar clutter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7459,7460,3263,192,7461,7462,199,58,7463,7464],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-22445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-gov-ned-lamont","category-dan-mckee","category-doug-burgum","category-marinelog","category-massachusetts-gov-maura-healey","category-new-york-gov-kathy-hochul","category-news","category-offshore-wind","category-radar-cluttere","category-rhode-island-gov","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}