Judge Strikes Down Donald Trump's Executive Order on Wind Energy:
The court vacated the wind order on the basis that it was unlawful.
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U.S. Federal Judge Overturns Trump's Offshore Wind OrderThe ruling concerns the nearly completed, roughly $6 billion Revolution Wind project.
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- U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris ruled that the order issued in August was unconstitutional.
- BOEM had halted Revolution Wind since August over unspecified national-security concerns; about 70 percent of turbines had been installed.
- An earlier preliminary injunction put delay costs at $2.3 million daily and found more than 1,000 union jobs threatened.
- The partners aim to resume construction immediately, but the Interior Department and BOEM may appeal Saris’ ruling.
Given that the Wind Order constitutes a change of course from decades of agencies’ issuing (or denying) permits related to wind energy projects, the Agency Defendants were required, at minimum, to “provide a reasoned explanation for the change” and to “display awareness that [they were] changing position.”— U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris, describing the court decision striking down the wind-energy order
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