(The Center Square) – Offshore wind opponents in the fishing industry helped shape the Trump administration’s decision to halt work on the Revolution Wind project, a $4 billion development off the coasts of Rhode Island and Connecticut, a new report says.

Annie Hawkins is a former fishing industry attorney and executive director at the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), which opposes offshore wind farms. She is now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s top lawyer. As NOAA's attorney, Hawkins was in

Seafreeze Shoreside, a Rhode Island based seafood company that is now owned by Spanish multinational company Profand Fishing Holding , is a member of RODA and is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the administration allowed another

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