Republican lawmakers are calling on U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to revoke all remaining Gulf of Maine offshore wind leases.

In a letter, sent Tuesday, a group of Maine lawmakers urge Washington to revoke four leases awarded last year, to cancel a scheduled bottom-trawl survey, and to terminate the lease for the Maine Research Array, which the University of Maine has been developing for over a decade. The Trump administration already ordered UMaine to halt work on the project back in April.

The letter also calls for a comprehensive review of all existing national offshore wind policies.

Maine State Representative Reagan Paul of Winterport praised the Trump administration’s termination of nearly $700 million in funding for offshore

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