Trump admin scraps 5 offshore wind farms citing ‘national security risks’

The US Interior Department announced Monday that it was immediately pausing leases for five offshore wind farms — including two in New York — “due to national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.” The renewable energy projects included the Massachusetts and Rhode Island-headquartered Vineyard Wind 1 and Revolution Wind, a commercial wind farm in Virginia and New York’s Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind — several of which had gotten either funding or regulatory boosts from the Biden administration.