U.S. Orders Halt to Empire Wind Construction

April 19, 2025--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--After suspending offshore leases for wind energy, the U.S. government has ordered a halt to any construction activity already underway for the Empire Wind facility off the coast of Long Island. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took to the social media platform X to announce that he ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) "to immediately halt all construction activities on the Empire Wind project until further review of information that suggests the Biden administration rushed through its approval without sufficient analysis."