Offshore Wind Hearing: Trump vs. New York, Nov 18, 2025
Vineyard Wind Blade Accident: 60 Tons of Microplastics
New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of 18 states in a lawsuit against the Trump administration in May 2025 for blocking federal approval of wind turbine projects. James, during her campaign, vowed to pursue Donald Trump, saying he was an illegitimate president.
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In January 2025, a presidential memorandum was issued temporarily withdrawing all areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from wind energy leasing, pending a review of the federal government's practices for wind projects. History: NOAA, since 2016, has declared an unusual whale mortality event along the Atlantic Coast. The Block Island, Rhode Island, offshore wind project started in 2016, and whale deaths have followed wind turbine construction. In July 2024, a Vineyard Wind blade fell off a turbine, spewing 60 tons of foam, microplastics, and balsa wood into the ocean environment. Hundreds of blades were later found defective and are being changed today.
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This is one of a multitude of cases filed against the Trump administration since January 20, 2025; as of early November 2025, there have been hundreds of lawsuits related to executive orders and other actions.
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On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court limited federal judges to issuing universal injunctions that block the enforcement of a president's policies. The Trump administration uses the term "lawfare" to describe investigations and lawsuits against them as political attacks.
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Another US federal judge in the start of November ruled in favour of the motion filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a separate ongoing wind turbine case in Massachusetts, which requested that the case be paused as they will voluntarily remand the approval given to the SouthCoast Wind project earlier, so it could be reconsidered.
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Judge William G. Young, who originally heard most portions of the Trump vs New York case during a September hearing, expressed some skepticism about the multistate wind turbine lawsuit. As of November 7, Young was replaced for personal reasons. The new judge is Patti B. Saris.
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Case number 1:25-cv-11221 New York vs Trump pertains to a lawsuit filed in federal court challenging a government action related to wind turbines.
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The next hearing is in Boston, Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9:30 AM. The case will be heard by Federal District Judge Patti B. Saris, Courtroom 19 - 7th Floor.
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Address: US Courthouse, One Courthouse Way
Note: The hearing is in person only—no audio registration.
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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