Magaziner calls the August 2025 Revolution Wind halt reckless
Seth MagazinerU.S. Representative from Rhode Island and member of the House Natural Resources Committee
Magaziner said the Trump administration was putting America last by stalling Revolution Wind, and that Rhode Islanders paying higher electric bills and trades workers put out of work were the losers of what he called a reckless action.
“The Trump Administration is putting America last by stalling a project that will produce low-cost American-made energy The biggest winners from this move are countries like Saudi Arabia, from whom we will have to buy more oil, and the losers are Rhode Islanders, who are paying more on their electric bills, and trades workers who have been put in the unemployment line as a result of this reckless action”
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Was the federal government justified in halting Revolution Wind construction?
Federal officials halted construction of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island in August and December 2025, citing national-security concerns. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the December pause, while Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse criticized the interruptions. A federal judge granted preliminary injunctions against both orders. In September 2026, Connecticut announced installation of the project's final turbine.
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Press release from the Rhode Island governor's office on a Quonset event where the governor, the state's congressional delegation and union leaders criticized the federal stop-work order on Revolution Wind. It quotes the governor, both senators, both House members and several labor and college leaders.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior ordered work on Revolution Wind to stop on Friday, August 22, 2025. The governor's office said in the release that the project was about 80 percent complete, with 45 of its 65 turbines standing.
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The release says the leaders at the Quonset event vowed to keep pressing for a reversal of the order so the project could be finished in 2026 as planned.
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The case asks whether the federal halts of Revolution Wind construction were justified. Magaziner says the stop-work order puts America last and calls it a reckless action that leaves Rhode Island ratepayers and trades workers worse off. That rejects the halt itself rather than only disputing how it is described, so we used the Condemned label.
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