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| One of the turbines being built buy Revolution Wind, off the New England coast. The Trump administration keeps trying to shut it down, but the courts keep allowing construction to continue. |
The latest hit came on Monday, when a federal judge overturned an Interior Department order that halted construction of the $6.2 billion offshore wind project.
It looks like Trump and his minions will need to come up with better excuses to shut down wind projects.
"The injunction issued by Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia allows construction to resume at Revolution Wind, a 65-turbine project capable of powering 350,000 homes. It marks the second time Lamberth has overturned an Interior order seeking to halt construction of the project off Connecticut and Rhode Island .
In September, he rejected Interior's claim that the project constituted a threat to national security, calling it the height of 'arbitrary and capricious action."
His minions at Interior keep coming up with reasons they think will stick when it comes to shutting dow the windmills, like national security or messing with radar or they kill birds. As if Trump was the nation's Ornithologist In Chief or something.
However, Trump's lifetime of literally tilting at windmills keeps failing because of his inability to keep his mouth shut.
Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud. Just last Friday, Trump bragged about stopping wind farms when he met with oil executives.
Trump has also said, repeatedly, that he would never approve wind energy projects. "I've told my people we will not approve windmills.......Maybe we get forced to do something because some stupid person in the Biden administration agreed to do something years ago. We will not approve any windmills in this country," Trump has said.
Trumps minion's are almost as bad at this. As Politico reports, "(Judge) Lamberth said his concerns were 'heightened' after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum criticized offshore wind projects in December 'for a variety of reasons unrelated to national security.'"
So, basically, Lamberth saw through all the smokescreens the Trump people were putting up. Lamberth said in his ruling that the government failed to come up with any new information to justify a halt to the Revolution project, which is already about 90 percent complete.
Revolution wind said they were losing $1.4 million a day, and noted the Defense Department approved the project before Trump returned to office in January, 2025.
New England states had solidly backed Revolution Wind and were obviously happy with Monday's ruling. "Federal interference has stood in the way of lower energy costs and good-paying jobs, but today's ruling puts Revolution Wind back on track," Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday.
As USA Today explains, despite Trump's efforts, wind and solar were at least until recently two of the fastest rowing energy sectors in the U.S. Solar and wind produces as much s 17 percent of the nation's electricity in 2024. Land based wind turbines produce around 10 percent of United States electricity.
Trump hates solar and wind power . He loves oil and coal. But the forces of commerce and business will keep overwhelming him. Probably with the help of the courts.
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