The Trump administration is preparing to revoke a Biden-era permit for an $11.5 billion offshore wind farm planned off the coast of Maryland.
In a court filing on Aug. 25, the U.S. Department of the Interior said its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is “in the process of reconsidering its prior approval” of the project’s construction and operations plan, which was issued in the final days of the Biden administration.
The department indicated it intends “no later than September 12 to remand and, separately, to vacate” the approval document.
The move came in coordination with Ocean City, a resort town on Maryland’s southeastern shore that sued the Interior Department last year to block the project, which would be built a little more than 10 miles offshore. Both parties request that the court put the case on hold while the Interior Department works to resolve the dispute by rescinding the permit….