A coalition of regional renewable power groups launched a lawsuit over the weekend against the Trump administration, seeking to force the Pentagon to complete its reviews for onshore wind that have been stalled for nearly a year.
The groups — which included the Renewable Northwest, Advanced Power Alliance and Alliance for Clean Energy New York — argued in a filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon that the “direct impact” of the Defense Department’s inaction “has been a total halt of all wind project development in the United States.”
The Defense Department has stalled development of around 160 wind projects across the United States, the clean power industry’s trade association tallied last month, because the department has failed to complete standard national security reviews — an action that is needed before those projects can move forward.
The groups alleged in their lawsuit that the review process “ground to a halt,” beginning in August 2025 and affecting all steps of the process.
