Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer is taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to suspend work on a $5bn project on the north-east US coast.
Denmark’s Ørsted filed a legal challenge on Thursday against the White House’s decision 10 days ago to suspend the lease for its Revolution Wind site as part of a sweeping move halting all construction of offshore wind.
The attempted injunction is the latest in a series of legal volleys between the renewables industry and Donald Trump, whose administration has sought to block major offshore wind projects from moving ahead since his re-election.
Trump, a vocal supporter of the fossil fuel industry, opposes renewable energy, and wind in particular, saying he finds turbines ugly, costly and inefficient.
On 22 December, officials from the Department of the Interior suspended the leases for five large offshore wind projects that are under construction in US waters over unspecified “national security risks”.
A statement from Ørsted and its partner in the Revolution project, Skyborn Renewables, described the move as a violation of applicable law.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order late Tuesday to keep an aging Colorado...
Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company...
The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already...
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said on Friday that an IAEA team...
