Overview

• The withdrawal covers 12 awards that were intended to support offshore wind staging and assembly facilities.
• The largest cancellation removes $427 million from the Humboldt Bay terminal planned to support California’s floating turbine build-out.
• Additional rescissions include $48 million for a Staten Island port, about $39 million near Norfolk, Virginia, and $20 million for Paulsboro, New Jersey.
• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the grants wasteful and said funding would be shifted where possible to upgrade other ports and traditional maritime infrastructure.
• President Trump has renewed his criticism of wind power, saying this week that no new windmills will be allowed.