In the latest attack on the country’s renewable energy industry, President Trump has ordered companies to stop construction on a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The project was nearly completed and was set to deliver electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes by next year. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sent a letter to one of the developers of the project, saying that the government was halting construction to “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration had tried to stop a wind farm from being built off the coast of Long Island, but eventually allowed the project to proceed after Governor Kathy Hochul approved new gas pipelines in New York.