Belcher: Permitting Reform’s Key Weakness? Future Administrations

Jack up barge in the Atlantic Ocean off Smith Point Park. Orsted Sunrise Wind cable operations for Sunrise Wind farm, in Center Moriches, N.Y., March 19, 2025 — Cable operations for Ørsted's Sunrise Wind farm offshore New York. Sunrise Wind was one of five East coast wind farm construction projects ordered by the Trump administration to stop work in December. (Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images/Newsday via Getty Images)

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