Three points: 1. Yesterday’s announcement by @BOEM was huge, and took thousands of square miles off the table for future development of industrial offshore wind installations. 2. While @SecretaryBurgu’s order introduces even more uncertainty, there are still several projects under construction that could continue to move forward if legal challenges and DOI review do not stop them: including Empire, Vineyard, Sunrise, Revolution and Dominion. 3. The disinformation about “good paying union jobs” and “cheap, clean energy” from the offshore wind industry’s cheerleaders like the Oceanic Network ring hollow. We know that NGOs, union leaders and some politicians would stop shilling for the foreign fossil fuel companies and foreign workers building inefficient, unreliable and wildly expensive offshore wind facilities once they stop getting funding to do so. BOEM cancels all offshore Wind Energy Area designations workboat.com/wind/boem-cance…

Nation’s Largest Fish Market Rallies to Stop Empire Wind Project BRONX, NY, July 14, 2025- At 6:30 AM tomorrow, July 15th, the Fulton Fish Market Cooperative, the largest fish market in the United States and the backbone of our nation’s wild-caught seafood supply, will host a rally at its Hunts Point facility to oppose the proposed Empire Wind offshore wind project. The rally is also a call to action to President Donald J. Trump, urging him to stop the foreign-backed industrialization of American fishing grounds and protect one of the most iconic links in our national seafood supply chain. The Market, a national distributor of U.S. wild-caught seafood, is joining forces at the rally with Protect Our Coast NJ (POC-NJ) and the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association (LICFA) to defend sustainable fisheries, national food security, and the thousands of working-class jobs that depend on them. All three organizations are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the Empire Wind project, filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. The case brings together fishing and environmental groups from Cape May, New Jersey to New Bedford, Massachusetts in a unified legal challenge. Link here: bit.ly/EmpireWindLawsuitUpda… Fishing is a multi-billion-dollar industry in New York and New Jersey (NOAA, 2024). In New York, the commercial fishing and seafood industry supported 69,836 full- and part-time jobs and generated $9.2 billion in sales, $1.9 billion in income, and $3.2 billion in value-added impacts in 2022. In New Jersey, the industry supported 72,349 jobs and generated $12.9 billion in sales, $2.6 billion in income, and $4.5 billion in value-added impacts in the same year. Over 1,200 full-time jobs, mostly unionized, including more than 500 held by Bronx residents, are supported by the Market’s operations, jobs that rely on continued access to American fishing grounds threatened by Empire Wind. “The reporting of the economic benefits of Empire Wind is yet another case of select, manipulated, and deceptive data used to push a political agenda, but at what expense?” said Nicole Ackerina, CEO of the Market. “At the expense of an industry that provides one of the only remaining pure and unprocessed proteins to New Yorkers, at the expense of thousands of competitively paid and union jobs, and at the expense of a seafood supply chain that fuels the city’s and the nation’s restaurants and tourism economy.” “If Empire Wind turns our ocean into an offshore industrial power plant, it will block access to the waters we depend on,” said Bonnie Brady, Executive Director of LICFA. “It won’t be safe to enter the area, it won’t be safe to fish there, and that’s a direct threat to the US wild-caught seafood economy that keeps New Yorkers fed and working.” “We’re proud to stand with America’s seafood industry, fishermen, and environmentalists in urging President Trump to cancel Norway’s Empire Wind project off New York and New Jersey,” said Robin Shaffer of Protect Our Coast NJ. “We hope the incredible people at this historic market can send a message loud and clear to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Please, Mr. President, defend America’s commercial fishing heritage and protect thousands of good union jobs in an America First economy.” The 203-year-old Cooperative, alongside the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association and Protect Our Coast NJ, stands in solidarity with America’s commercial fishermen and their coastal communities, and respectfully urges President Trump to halt the Empire Wind project before it causes lasting harm to US ocean resources and working waterfronts, and the national seafood supply chain.   Press availability begins at 6:15 AM at 800 Food Center Drive, Bronx, NY 10474. All media are welcome. Contacts: Nicole Ackerina, CEO, Fulton Fish Market Cooperative (516) 462-0726/Nicole@fultonfishcooperative.com Robin Shaffer, President, POCNJ protectourcoastnj@gmail.com Bonnie Brady, Exec. Dir., LICFA/ greenfluke@optonline.net @POTUS