{"id":61385,"date":"2026-04-15T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/61385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:31:57","slug":"orsted-cleared-to-resume-work-on-revolution-wind-project-in-legal-setback-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/61385\/","title":{"rendered":"Orsted cleared to resume work on Revolution Wind project in legal setback for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Revolution Wind offshore wind turbine farm, staged on the State Pier in New London, Connecticut, in September, 2025.Brian Snyder\/Reuters<\/p>\n

A federal judge on Monday cleared Danish offshore wind developer Orsted \u200bto resume work on its nearly finished Revolution \u200dWind project, which U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration halted along with four other projects last month.<\/p>\n

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a legal setback for Trump, who has spent the last year \u200dseeking to \u200bblock expansion of offshore wind in federal waters. It was the second time in four months the $5 billion Revolution Wind project has sought, and won, a temporary court order to block a government stop-work order.<\/p>\n

Orsted\u2019s Revolution Wind lawsuit is one of several filed by offshore wind companies and states seeking to reverse the Interior Department\u2019s December \u206022 suspension of five offshore wind leases over what it said were national security concerns around radar interference.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s hearing was the first of three that will be held this week. The others involve Equinor\u2019s Empire Wind, off the coast of New York, and Dominion\u2019s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind facility.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from the Interior \u200cDepartment.<\/p>\n

Orsted said it would resume \u200dwork on Revolution Wind as soon as possible while its lawsuit progresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cRevolution Wind will determine how \u200dbest it may be possible to work with the US \u200cAdministration to achieve an expeditious and durable resolution,\u201d the energy company said in \u2060a statement.<\/p>\n

Government attorneys had argued that the pause was justified by new, classified information regarding offshore wind\u2019s impacts on \u200bnational security revealed to Interior officials by the Defense Department in November.<\/p>\n

Lamberth rejected the administration\u2019s argument that national security concerns justified halting the project, which he said would be irreparably harmed without an injunction.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to stop everything in place, costing them one-and-a-half million a day, while you decide what you want to do?\u201d Lamberth, who \u200bwas appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, asked Justice Department attorney Peter Torstensen during the hearing.<\/p>\n

Lamberth also said he was troubled by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum\u2019s recent criticism of offshore wind for reasons unrelated to national security. In television interviews on the day Interior ordered the pause, Burgum said offshore wind was expensive, unreliable, reliant on foreign-made equipment and harmful to ocean life.<\/p>\n

Revolution Wind attorney Janice Schneider argued the government\u2019s pause had violated \u2060federal laws governing administrative procedure and due process, adding that the developer had not been able to \u2060review the classified assessment on offshore wind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Court should be very skeptical of the government\u2019s true motives here,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n

Offshore wind \u200cdevelopers including Orsted have faced repeated disruptions to multi-billion dollar projects under U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said he finds wind turbines ugly, expensive and inefficient.<\/p>\n

The project is about 87 per cent complete and is expected to begin generating power this year, Orsted has said.<\/p>\n

Revolution Wind LLC is a 50-50 joint venture between Orsted and Global Infrastructure Partners\u2019 Skyborn Renewables. Orsted has also \u200csued on behalf of its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The Revolution Wind offshore wind turbine farm, staged on the State Pier in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[2592,2582,2593,2574,2572,2594,227,2571,2587,2588,2584,2573,2570,1414,440,2072,2586,2580,2605,2575,2576,1585,2583,2501,2578,2595,436,2600,2601,2603,2598,2602,2596,287,2599,2577,2590,2591,1158,2589,2597,2581,239,1413,2585,2579,1161,2604],"class_list":["post-61385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-orsted","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}