Will New York stop blocking natural gas pipeline following Trump approval of offshore wind farm?

May 27, 2025

When U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced that the Trump administration would lift the stop-work order on Equinor’s Empire Wind project, he said that Gov. Kathy Hochul had expressed her “willingness to move forward on critical pipeline capacity” – sparking speculation that the governor had agreed to approve natural gas pipelines in exchange for the offshore wind project. The governor has denied that she made any such deal, but she has signaled an openness to pipeline projects that have run into issues in New York in the past.

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