One of the Republican senators leading permitting talks on Capitol Hill called the Trump administration’s decision last month to halt five offshore wind projects “terrible” timing.
Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she and her Democratic counterparts had been working well together leading up to the holiday break.
But the Interior Department’s December offshore wind “pause” prompted EPW ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) to threaten to walk away from the negotiating table.
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“We thought we were on a good path,” Capito said Tuesday about the permitting talks, adding she has been in constant contact with the White House.
