Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust, leaving workers to mourn good-paying jobs that may never come back.
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Workers gather at the State Pier in New London, Connecticut, on Aug. 25, 2025, to discuss the Trump administration’s order to halt construction of the offshore wind project called Revolution Wind. (Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images via Inside Climate News)
When Gerard Mullin decided to train in offshore wind, he didn’t know what to expect. But on his first long-term project in Massachusetts, he immediately relished the consistency of the work, the good pay, and the novelty of laboring at sea.
“I thought it was the best thing in the world,” he said.
