Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump Cannot Block New Wind Farms
December 08, 2025
Clinton-nominated Judge Patti Saris ruled Monday to overturn President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order directing agencies to pause issuing new or renewed wind project permits pending a “comprehensive assessment.”
Trump’s order paused new or renewed offshore wind leases on a wide swath of federal waters and called for several agencies led by the Department of the Interior to complete an assessment on wind projects’ environmental and economic impacts. Saris ruled Monday that the “wind order” was illegal, vacating it.
“After review of the parties’ submissions and a hearing, the Court concludes that the Wind Order constitutes a final agency action that is arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” Saris’s ruling reads. “Accordingly, the Court vacates the Wind Order and declares it unlawful.”
The Trump administration has issued work stop orders and revoked permits for wind energy projects, though a Reagan-appointed judge overruled the administration’s work stop order for the massive Revolution Wind project in September.
In contrast, the Biden administration pushed for wind and solar projects through billions in taxpayer subsidies, grants and loans. A spokesperson for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the Biden administration was skirting environmental reviews and “rubber-stamping” offshore wind projects.
Trump has repeatedly railed against wind energy, writing on Truth Social on Aug. 20 that “any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!”
White House Spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the DCNF in a statement that “under Joe Biden’s Green New Scam, offshore wind projects were given unfair, preferential treatment while the rest of the energy industry was hindered by burdensome regulations.”
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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