Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
The renewable energy industry and its advocates have initiated two more lawsuits against the Trump administration over its continuing campaign against wind and solar energy development.
Three of the four developers building wind farms in U.S. waters are challenging the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 order suspending all such construction.
The Trump administration has ordered all offshore wind generation construction halted and has stalled some onshore wind projects.
An announcement by the U.S. Department of Interior said the Department of Defense had identified wind farms as national security risks and is pausing offshore wind leases.
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order halting onshore and offshore wind power leasing and permitting was unlawful, finding that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is seeking to remand its earlier approval of the construction and operations plan for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind.
BOEM is formally seeking to vacate approval of the US Wind project off the Maryland coast, saying it made errors in granting the approval.
Revolution Wind’s developers are seeking an emergency injunction against the federal stop-work order slapped on the offshore wind project.
The Trump administration is moving to close the door on U.S. offshore wind development by remanding approvals for all projects not already under construction.
In an Aug. 29 filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., the Department of the Interior said it intends to reconsider its approval of the construction and operations plan for SouthCoast Wind off the New England coast.
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