The Trump administration on Friday issued an order stopping all activities of a wind energy project in Rhode Island that could have supplied electricity to 350,000 homes.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a letter sent to Ørsted, the Danish company operating the project, said the stop work order seeks "to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States and prevention of interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas."

"You may not resume activities until BOEM informs you that BOEM has completed its necessary review," the letter added.

The Revolution Wind Project, a $1.5 billion plan, approved under former President Biden is 80 percent complete and projected to be finis

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