US court allows a wind farm project to restart
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A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump seeks to shut it down.
Orsted’s C.E.O. says it plans to move quickly to complete a $6.2 billion wind farm off Rhode Island after a judge struck down President Trump’s bid to halt it.
Federal judge overturns Interior Department halt on Revolution Wind project, allowing Danish developer Orsted to resume offshore construction work.
Some analysts predicted a similar outcome on Jan. 16 in a separate case that would allow Dominion to continue construction on its 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.
China has more wind power than any country in the world and is currently adding twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday allowed construction to resume on a major offshore wind farm serving Connecticut and Rhode Island that the Trump administration ordered shut down in December on unspecified national security grounds.
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Strong winds will blow throughout central Montana today, as several areas are expected to approach record high temperatures.