{"id":19729,"date":"2025-09-29T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:23:03","slug":"judge-allows-work-to-restart-on-new-england-wind-project-that-trump-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19729","title":{"rendered":"Judge allows work to restart on New England wind project that Trump halted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThere is no question in my mind of irreparable harm to the plaintiff,\u201d Lamberth said of the administration\u2019s actions during the hearing.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamberth granted the preliminary injunction, allowing work on the project to restart while the government conducts review of its concerns. The order said Revolution Wind is likely to suffer irreparable harm if it isn\u2019t able to restart work on the project, which is 80 percent complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamberth said that if work does not proceed on the project, the \u201centire enterprise could collapse\u201d and he pointed to a specialized ship necessary to complete the project that will no longer be available after December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, which is being developed by the Danish wind giant \u00d8rsted and Skyborn Renewables, has argued that the stop-work order is illegal and \u201creflects a shockingly expansive theory of agency power to undo prior regulatory approvals.\u201d Lawyers for the companies argued that the Interior Department violated the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/20\/chill-from-scotus-climate-ruling-hits-wide-range-of-biden-actions-00045920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major questions doctrine<\/a>&nbsp;with the pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revolution Wind has said the stop-work order \u201cwill inflict devastating and irreparable harm\u201d on the project. The company has already spent or committed about $5 billion on the project and will incur more than $1 billion in costs if the project is canceled, it said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/judege-offshore-wind-project-restarts-00575150\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/judege-offshore-wind-project-restarts-00575150<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no question in my mind of irreparable harm to the plaintiff,\u201d Lamberth said of the administration\u2019s actions during the hearing.   <\/p>\n<p>Lamberth granted the preliminary injunction, allowing work on the project to restart while the government conducts review of its concerns. The order said Revolution Wind is likely to suffer irreparable harm if it isn\u2019t able to restart work on the project, which is 80 percent complete.<\/p>\n<p>Lamberth said that if work does not proceed on the project, the \u201centire enterprise could collapse\u201d and he pointed to a specialized ship necessary to complete the project that will no longer be available after December.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which is being developed by the Danish wind giant \u00d8rsted and Skyborn Renewables, has argued that the stop-work order is illegal and \u201creflects a shockingly expansive theory of agency power to undo prior regulatory approvals.\u201d Lawyers for the companies argued that the Interior Department violated the major questions doctrine with the pause.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution Wind has said the stop-work order \u201cwill inflict devastating and irreparable harm\u201d on the project. The company has already spent or committed about $5 billion on the project and will incur more than $1 billion in costs if the project is canceled, it said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/judege-offshore-wind-project-restarts-00575150<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,2255,170,1059],"class_list":["post-19729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-england","tag-trump","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19730,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions\/19730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}