Sep 22, 2025:
Federal Judge Royce Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily allows Revolution Wind to continue construction of its wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.
Lamberth said that Revolution Wind is "likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction."
Source:
Frazin, Rachel. (September 22, 2025). "Judge allows wind farm halted by Trump to resume construction". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
Sep 4, 2025:
Revolution Wind filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's August 22, 2025 stop work order.
Revolution argued that the order "was issued without statutory authority, lacks any evidentiary basis, and is unlawful."
Source:
Frazin, Rachel. (September 4, 2025). "Judge allows wind farm halted by Trump to resume construction". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
Aug 22, 2025:
The Trump administration issued a stop work order to halt construction at Revolution Wind.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sent a letter to Ørsted, the Danish company operating the project, part of which states:
In particular, BOEM is seeking to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States and prevention of interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas...
U.S. DOI Deputy Press Secretary Aubrie Spady told the Daily Caller News Foundation:
Americans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and built to last — not experimental and expensive wind projects that are proven failures. In line with President Donald Trump's Energy Dominance Agenda, Interior is putting an immediate stop to these costly failures to deliver a stronger energy future and lower costs for American families. Like President Trump said, 'the days of stupidity are over in the USA!'
Revolution Wind is America's first multi-state offshore wind project. When completed, it will supply 704 MW of offshore wind energy to Rhode Island and Connecticut, which is enough electricity to power more than 350,000 homes.
The Revolution Wind Project is a $1.5 billion plan approved under former President Joe Biden. It is 80 percent complete and projected to be finished by 2026. Ørsted said the company is "fully permitted, having secured all required federal and state permits."
Revolution Wind is the third wind project halted this year by the Trump administration (see Apr 16, 2025 and Aug 6, 2025 and entries below).
Source:
Huot-Marchand, Amalia. (August 22, 2025). "Trump administration halts offshore wind project in Rhode Island". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
"About Revolution Wind ". Revolution Wind. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
Aug 6, 2025:
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) reversed the Biden administration's approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project in Idaho.
In a press release entitled "Interior Department Moves to Cancel Reckless Biden-era Approval of Lava Ridge Wind Project" the DOI said:
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is restoring common sense to American energy policy by reversing the Biden administration's misguided, last-minute push to approve the Lava Ridge Wind Project, an enormous and unpopular 1,000-megawatt wind facility in southern Idaho, during the final days of the former president's term. Under President Donald J. Trump, the Department of the Interior will no longer provide preferential treatment towards unreliable, intermittent power sources that harm rural communities, livelihoods and the land, such as the Lava Ridge Wind Project and the radical Green New Scam agenda that burdens our nation and public lands.
Following its review, the Department discovered crucial legal deficiencies in the issuance of the approval, including unique statutory criteria that were ignored.
In the press release, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum was quoted as saying:
Under President Donald Trump's bold leadership, the Department is putting the brakes on deficient, unreliable energy and putting the American people first. By reversing the Biden administration's thoughtless approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project, we are protecting tens of thousands of acres from harmful wind policy while shielding the interests of rural Idaho communities. This decisive action defends the American taxpayer, safeguards our land, and averts what would have been one of the largest, most irresponsible wind projects in the nation.
Source:
Frazin, Rachel. (August 6, 2025). "Trump reverses Biden approval of Idaho wind project". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
Apr 16, 2025:
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) directed the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to halt all construction on the Empire Wind 1 project off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.
In a letter sent to Empire Offshore Wind LLC from acting BOEM director Walter Cruickshank, Cruickshank said:
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is issuing this Director's Order to Empire Offshore Wind LLC to halt all ongoing activities related to the Empire Wind Project on the outer continental shelf to allow time for it to address feedback it has received, including from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about the environmental analyses for that project...You may not resume activities until BOEM informs you that BOEM has completed its necessary
review.
The Empire Wind 1 project was approved in late 2023.
Source:
Frazin, Rachel. (April 16, 2025). "Interior orders offshore wind project halted as Trump seeks 'no windmills'". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
Jan 20, 2025:
Trump issued an executive order entitled "Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects".
Read a summary of what the executive order does here.
Feb 2, 2026 Update
Courts allow all five offshore wind projects blocked by Trump to resume construction | The Hill
Commentary:
If you've been paying attention, you know that Trump hates wind. He's expressed his disdain for wind energy on many occasions, and he's made many misleading and questionable claims about wind energy. It's his misguided beliefs and his hatred for "windmills" that have defined his wind energy policy during his second term as president.
To fully understand all of the pros and cons of wind energy, and to get a fair and balanced picture of the facts, I suggest you read an HWR article I posted on February 16, 2025 entitled "The Facts about Wind Turbines and Birds", and a forth-coming HWR post (due out within the next month) entitled "A Comprehensive Review of Questionable and Misleading Claims about Wind Energy".
First of all, it's important to note that Trump issued an executive order to freeze new offshore wind leases on January 20, 2025 - the very first day of his second term. What does this tell you about his disdain for wind?
Since then, his administration has issued stop work orders on three different wind farms, all of which were previously approved, and one of which is 80 percent completed. The most recent stop work order issued against Revolution Wind cites "the protection of national security interests of the United States and prevention of interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas" as justification for the order.
How does a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island pose any kind of threat to U.S. national security? Trump has used "national security," "national emergency," and similar bogus arguments before to justify his executive orders.
And what about preventing interference with "reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone...?" Just what exactly does the mean? How would the construction and operation of this wind farm be an "unreasonable" use of it's geographic area?
The statements made by DOI Deputy Press Secretary Aubrie Spady to the Daily Caller News Foundation are a glaring example of how Trump and his administration sycophants feel about wind energy, and how they continue to spread misleading and false claims. To call wind projects "experimental" and "proven failures" is patently false.
As Substack columnist Carolyn Fortuna puts it in a post entitled "Trump Works To Sabotage Offshore Wind Alliances", "As is their norm, lies are more important for the Trump administration than data or peer-reviewed research."