The administration of President Donald Trump, which halted an offshore wind farm in New York and New Jersey, then allowed it to resume, is moving against it again.

In a federal court filing Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it intends to reconsider the prior approval of the Empire Wind 2 offshore wind project granted under the Biden administration.

Empire Wind, located off the coast of Long Branch in New Jersey and Long Beach in Long Island, New York, is the only offshore wind project being built off New Jersey’s coast following a string of project cancellations or indefinite postponements over the past two years.

And the same agency says it is reconsidering approval of the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project in New Jersey, which is all but dead in the water aft

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