Trump Admin Considers Blowing Another Offshore Wind Permit Out Of Water
September 02, 2025
The Trump administration will reconsider its approval for a major offshore wind project south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, after moving to cancel several other offshore wind projects in recent weeks.
In a motion submitted on Friday to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys wrote that the Department of the Interior (DOI) plans to revisit its approval of SouthCoast Wind’s construction and operations plan (COP). The agency approved the plan mere days before President Donald Trump returned to office, and Trump has dealt several recent blows to the offshore wind industry as it continues to ax massive Biden-era green energy projects and closes in on others.
“Interior intends to reconsider its COP approval and will therefore be moving for a voluntary remand of that agency action by September 18, 2025,” the filing states.
The DOJ filed the motion in a lawsuit brought by Nantucket, Massachusetts, in March challenging the agency’s approval of the project. The administration requested additional time to respond to Nantucket’s complaint as the DOI was reconsidering the massive project’s construction plan approval.
SouthCoast wind then opposed the administration’s request in a Monday filing.
Notably, an offshore wind turbine malfunctioned and littered debris off the coast of Nantucket in June 2024, raising the concern of some environmentalist groups.
The DOI recently issued a work-stop order for a massive offshore wind project off the coast of Rhode Island and was seeking to withdraw approval for another Biden-era offshore wind farm near Maryland. The agency halted all “preferential treatment” on July 17 for wind and solar projects that it considered to be “unreliable,” “subsidy-dependent” and “foreign-controlled.”
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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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