The offshore wind industry has spent months hoping.
When President Donald Trump halted new offshore wind leases on Day 1, many in the industry hoped that permitted projects were safe. When EPA later revoked an air quality permit for a New Jersey project, many wrote it off as an isolated incident for a development already on thin economic ice. And when Trump lifted a stop-work order on Empire Wind, some said it could be a sign that the president was done meddling with projects already under construction.
No one is voicing that optimism now.
Offshore wind is fighting for its life in the United States after an extraordinary two weeks that saw the Commerce Department launch an investigation into imported wind components, the Interior Department halt work on a massive East Coast project nearing completion, and the Transportation Department cancel $679 million in offshore wind infrastructure projects.
