Attorney General William Tong told an appreciative audience of construction union leaders Wednesday that Connecticut and Rhode Island were seeking a court order allowing resumption of work on the off-shore Revolution Wind project abruptly halted last month by the Trump administration. “I will make news right now. We are moving, as we speak, for a preliminary injunction to overturn the stop-work order right now,” Tong told the Connecticut Building Trades Council convention at the Mohegan Sun casino, prompting applause. The Trump administration issued the unprecedented order to stop work on a fully permitted, multibillion-dollar project that was initiated during Donald Trump’s first presidency and was 80% complete, promising the delivery of enough power next year to light 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Lamont addressed the convention earlier Wednesday, complaining that the Trump administration was no closer to explaining in detail why it halted the project, other than vague claims of national security — or what it would take to lift the stop-work order, issued a week before Labor Day.

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