Wind turbines generate electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm south of Rhode Island on July 7, 2022. John Moore/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Sept. 22 issued an injunction that permits construction on a wind turbine farm off the coast of New England to be completed, despite the Trump administration’s opposition.
The turbine farm, known as the Revolution Wind project, was approved by the Biden administration to build 704 megawatts of wind turbine capacity 15 miles off Rhode Island in the North Atlantic Ocean. On Aug. 22, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a “stop-work order” to Revolution Wind pending a review for “national security interests,” when the project was in the final stage of construction.
