Blumenthal says the administration offered no evidence for its "fantastical claims"
U.S. senator from Connecticut, in a press release
“Once again, a court has struck down Trump’s senseless stop work order on Revolution Wind because the administration has failed to produce a single shred of evidence to support its fantastical claims.”
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Official statement
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Press release issued after the second preliminary injunction. Blumenthal says the administration failed to support its claims, and the release notes that he had written to Interior Secretary Burgum seeking answers about the national-security concerns without receiving a response.
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A federal judge had issued a second preliminary injunction allowing work on Revolution Wind to continue.
After the quotation
The release adds that Blumenthal had written to Interior Secretary Burgum after both halts seeking answers about the national-security concerns and that the administration did not respond.
How this statement is classified
Responding to: Doug Burgum said the offshore-wind pause, which included Revolution Wind, addressed emerging national-security risks from evolving adversary technology and projects near East Coast population centers.
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Why this label?
Blumenthal says the administration supplied no evidence for its claims and calls the order senseless. He rejects the basis for the action itself, which is more than a dispute over terminology.
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