Axios

The Interior Department on Friday halted construction on Ørsted's Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island's coast.

Why it matters: It's another sign of the Trump administration's hostility to offshore wind and comes after it issued — then lifted — a stop-work order on a major wind project under construction off New York's coast.

Hurricane Erin began moving away from the Mid-Atlantic Coast after its outer bands pummeled the North Carolina Outer Banks, but forecasters warned threats to the U.S. East Coast would continue for days after peaking on Thursday evening.

The big picture: The biggest threat from the Category 2 storm was tidal flooding as the "very large" storm system turned northeast, said the National Hurricane Center as it urged beachgoers not to swim at most U.S. East Coast beaches due to "life-threatening" surf and rip conditions.