Challenges continue to mount for wind farms in Maryland and elsewhere, as the Trump administration, already antagonistic to the projects, withdraws $679 million in previously approved funds, including $47.4 million for Sparrows Point steel project.
The consequences for Rhode Island’s only commercial offshore wind project will feature heavily in a Sept. 4 federal court hearing, where a group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general, including Rhode Island’s Peter Neronha, will ask U.S. District Judge William Young of Massachusetts to throw out the Trump administration’s Jan. 20 executive order halting reviews of offshore wind projects.
Wondering what the action will be in court: