Across the country — but especially on the East Coast — some 5,000 workers spend their days building up the offshore wind industry.
That work has been happening on construction sites, in factories, at ports, and in power plants. But recent steps by the Trump administration — including the cancellation on Friday of $670 million for offshore wind projects — could put those jobs in jeopardy or eliminate them all together.
That was the message Gov. Maura Healey and the governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey sent on Labor Day, calling on the Trump administration to uphold the offshore wind permits that have already been granted and allow those projects to get built.
“On this Labor Day, we reaffirm our unwavering support for working people and the unions that represent them,” the governors said in a joint statement. “We stand with America’s workers and strongly urge the Trump Administration to keep…
