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The Danish renewable energy company Orsted sued the Trump administration on Thursday in a bid to restart construction on an offshore wind farm in New England that the government has blocked.

The Interior Department abruptly ordered Orsted on Aug. 22 to halt construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The fully permitted project is 80% complete and would provide enough power for more than 350,000 homes across both states.

Orsted asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to set aside the stop-work order, dismissing it as arbitrary, capricious, unlawful and "issued in bad faith." Orsted and its partner Skyborn Renewables have already invested $5 billion in Revol

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