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Jody Stone

With Trump's promise last May to end offshore wind construction on day one, his victory has the already troubled industry on edge. “We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump told supporters at his Wildwood, New Jersey rally in May. “I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on day one.”

With debris from its July 13th blade disaster still washing up on New England shores, news broke Wednesday that Vineyard Wind, the troubled turbine company leasing ocean off the coast of Nantucket, will be removing more blades from its current project. "We have finalized root cause analysis and confirm the blade at issue at Vineyard Wind was caused by a manufacturing deviation from our factory in Canada," GE Vernova CEO Steve Strazik said on the company's earnings call.