出現問題！美國風力項目發展停滯

　　A wind project is stalled in New York. Experts worry about impacts across the U.S.  紐約的一個風力發電項目陷入停滯，專家擔憂此舉將影響全美。  U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction.  美國內政部部長道格·伯格姆已下令暫停長島海岸附近的一個海上風電項目。今日，該項目所有者兼運營商——挪威能源公司Equinor宣布，將遵照命令暫停所有建設工作。  

　　President Trump, a longtime critic of wind energy, issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects, one of his first executive orders upon returning to the White House.  特朗普總統長期以來一直批評風能，他在重返白宮后發布的首批行政命令之一，就是暫停新的海上風電項目開發。  

　　But Burgum's decision escalates the Administration's opposition to offshore wind because the multi-billion dollar project in New York already had its federal permits and had broken ground, says Robert Freudenberg, ?a vice president at the Regional Plan Association, an energy nonprofit in the New York metropolitan area.  但能源非營利組織區域規劃協會（位于紐約大都會區）的副主席羅伯特·弗勞登伯格表示，伯格姆的決定加劇了政府對海上風電的反對態度，因為紐約的這一數十億美元項目已獲得聯邦許可并已破土動工。  "This really is next level offshore wind aggression," Freudenberg says.  “這真的是海上風電領域前所未有的激進行為，”弗勞登伯格說。  

　　The offshore wind project, called Empire Wind 1, was supposed to supply power to 500,000 homes in New York. The federal lease for the project was signed during the first Trump administration in 2017. Much of the federal permitting for this project happened during the Biden administration.  這個名為“帝國風電1號”的海上風電項目，本應為紐約的50萬戶家庭供電。該項目的聯邦租賃協議于2017年特朗普第一任期內簽署。該項目的大部分聯邦許可工作是在拜登政府期間完成的。  

　　In a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the lead federal agency for permitting offshore wind projects, Burgum wrote that "approval for the project was rushed through by the prior administration without sufficient analysis."  伯格姆在致海上風電項目許可主管機構——海洋能源管理局（BOEM）的一封信中寫道：“該項目未經充分分析便被前政府倉促批準。”  

　　The letter did not give details about the alleged rush. The Interior Department did not respond to NPR's request for comment. The idea that the review of this wind project was rushed is not supported by evidence, says Matthew Eisenson, senior fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.  這封信并未詳細說明所謂的“倉促”之處。內政部未對NPR的置評請求作出回應。哥倫比亞大學薩賓氣候變化法律中心的高級研究員馬修·艾森森表示，認為該項目審查過于倉促的說法并無依據。  

　　?"BOEM spent two and a half years conducting an environmental review. The final product of that environmental review is an environmental impact statement that's over 3000 pages long, with all of its appendices, and it's very thorough," Eisenson says. "?This rationale, it's very suspect."  “海洋能源管理局花了兩年半時間進行環境審查。最終的環境審查報告是一份超過3000頁的環境影響聲明，包括所有附錄，內容非常詳盡，”艾森森說，“這一理由很值得懷疑。”