Equinor threatens cancellation of New York offshore wind project after Trump order

Wind, however, is excluded from that effort. Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office pausing new leasing and permitting of wind projects, which he popularly says are ugly, expensive and harmful to wildlife.

Equinor's Morris said the stop-work order stemmed from a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a division of the Commerce Department, but that the company had not seen the report and was not aware of the specific concerns it had raised.