Overview

• DOT rescinded or terminated grants awarded under the prior administration, led by a $426.7 million withdrawal from California’s Humboldt Bay offshore wind terminal and $47.4 million from Maryland’s Sparrows Point Steel marshalling port.
• Other cuts include $48.0 million for the Arthur Kill terminal in New York and $33.8 million for the Salem Wind Port in Massachusetts, with additional reductions in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Virginia, and Michigan.
• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the projects “wasteful” and said the money will be recompeted where possible for core maritime and port priorities tied to shipbuilding.
• The action follows Interior’s stop‑work order on the nearly complete 704 MW Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island and Connecticut, which BOEM said requires a national security review; Ørsted is assessing financial impacts and potential legal action.
• Interior also told a court it plans to remand and vacate approval for a planned Maryland offshore wind project, as governors, unions, and ISO New England warn of job losses, higher costs, and reliability risks and seek evidence for the security rationale.