Dominion Energy and a national coalition of regional wind and solar developers have filed separate lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to kneecap the renewable energy sector.
The moves represent the latest legal battle over the administration’s aggressive efforts to block offshore wind development and come days after President Donald Trump decided to pause construction of five offshore wind projects.
The coalition of groups that represent regional wind and solar developers filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, taking aim at a wide swath of federal agencies and accusing them of “pursuing a concerted and illegal strategy” to prevent private developers from building energy projects.
The administration’s efforts, the lawsuit says, “place wind and solar technologies into second-class status without providing any rational justification for such disparate treatment or drastic policy shifts — unlawfully picking winners and losers among energy sources.”
