Revolution Wind is located in federal waters 15 miles south of Rhode Island. Construction started in 2023, and the project has been slated to begin sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.

"Any pause or uncertainty at this stage could ripple across jobs, contracts, and communities already benefiting from the project," Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, a trade group whose members include wind project developers as well as oil and gas companies, said in a statement.

Construction on Empire Wind resumed in May when the Trump administration lifted the stop-work order. But the disruption was costly for the project's developer, a Norwegian company called Equinor. The firm recently cut the value of its investment by almost $1 billion, mainly because of "the changes in regulations for future offshore wind projects in the U.S.," Torgrim Reitan, Equinor's chief financial officer, said on an earnings call in July.