President Donald Trump’s long-running quest to demolish the U.S. offshore wind sector is facing some serious blowback in federal court.
Three different judges — including one appointed by Trump — earlier this month allowed construction to resume on multibillion-dollar offshore wind projects off the coasts of New England, New York and Virginia that the Interior Department was trying to idle.
After Congress shredded incentives for wind last year and the administration imposed new permitting roadblocks, the industry’s streak of victories last week represent a significant setback in Trump’s campaign to erase the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda and deepen the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Democrats and wind supporters hailed the clean sweep in last week’s legal cases, even if the ultimate fate of those massive offshore energy projects remains to be determined.
