Union leaders were elated following the lifting of a stop-work order imposed last month by the Trump administration on the Empire Wind project, the wind farm off the southwest coast of Long Island. The project had generated more than 1,000 union jobs and which was expected to produce thousands more.
The developer, the Norwegian energy company Equinor, said Monday it was told by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that the pause has been lifted for the Empire Wind project, allowing construction to resume.
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