Trump Targets $6.2 Billion Offshore Wind Project Nearing Completion

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United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted offshore wind since coming into office last year, as he strives to expand the country’s fossil fuel sector and shift the focus away from renewable energy. Trump has sought to halt the development of several offshore wind projects and has even resorted to paying companies to relinquish their leases on areas off the U.S. coast to instead invest in oil and gas projects. Now, Trump is looking to rescind approval for Connecticut’s first offshore wind project, Revolution Wind, as it nears completion.

The Trump administration is aiming to halt the $6.2 billion development, having filed a motion in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DoI) hopes to win the right to rescind the agency’s three-year-old approval of the Revolution Wind project, which is located off the coast of Rhode Island. The original suit was filed by the anti-wind-energy group Green Oceans in 2024, challenging the approval of the project and its sister project, South Fork Wind.

The recent filing states, “The Department of the Interior agrees that remand of its prior approval of the construction and operations plan (COP) for the Revolution Wind Project is warranted so that the agency can reevaluate its compliance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.” And “Given that remand, the Court need not reach Plaintiffs’ other claims challenging Interior’s COP approval.”

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