Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to restart work on the Revolution Wind project off the Atlantic coast.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha on Thursday announced that he and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong plan to file the suit in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.

Neronha said the Trump administration failed to cite any violation of law or threat to public safety when it ordered work to stop on the project on Aug. 22. Because of that, Neronha likens President Trump’s approach to a yo-yo.

“If he wants to behave like a yo-yo, that’s up to him, but you can’t run government that way,” Neronha told reporters. “The decision-making has to be rational. And it has to be rational because not only do Rhode Islanders, but industry

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