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Final Up to date on: twenty sixth August 2025, 04:23 am
Washington, D.C. — On Friday, the Trump Administration issued a cease work order to the Revolution Wind venture in Rhode Island. The venture is already 80 p.c accomplished—with 45 of its 65 wind generators already put in—and as soon as accomplished, Revolution Wind would harness sufficient offshore wind to energy 350,000 properties in Rhode Island and Connecticut. The venture has created 1,200 steady, well-paying jobs within the area, and would proceed to assist extra job alternatives because the venture develops.
In April, the administration issued an analogous cease work order, demanding the Empire Wind venture in New York to halt building. The order was rapidly reversed after advocacy from Sierra Membership and different environmental organizations, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and residents who demanded the venture to renew so the state can entry cheaper and extra dependable vitality.
In response, Sierra Membership Local weather Coverage Director Patrick Drupp issued the next assertion:Â
“We now have a scorching tip for Donald Trump: should you’re apprehensive concerning the rising prices People are going through, cease slicing off the most affordable type of vitality. Offshore wind has the potential to reliably and affordably energy tens of millions of properties throughout our nation, however Donald Trump would moderately take this feature away from People to bolster enterprise for fossil fuels. We are going to combat again towards this try to lift prices for our communities.”
Concerning the Sierra Membership
The Sierra Membership is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental group, with tens of millions of members and supporters. Along with defending each particular person’s proper to get outside and entry the therapeutic energy of nature, the Sierra Membership works to advertise clear vitality, safeguard the well being of our communities, defend wildlife, and protect our remaining wild locations by way of grassroots activism, public schooling, lobbying, and authorized motion. For extra data, go to www.sierraclub.org.
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