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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum entitled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects”  (1). The memorandum used the President’s authority under section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (2) – the same authority that President Biden used to prevent future  leasing of oil and gas leas