Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said an appeal “absolutely” is coming on the stop-work orders that his agency imposed and judges lifted against five offshore wind projects.

The 99 U.S. plants online in 2024 had a combined nameplate capacity of 3.97 GW, up 8% from 2020, a new report indicates.

Four judges have granted all five projects under construction in U.S. waters permission to resume construction.

Senators in both parties want to pass permitting legislation, but Democrats will not move forward on a bill unless they get assurances the Trump administration will stop impeding clean energy projects.

A federal judge has granted Dominion Energy a preliminary injunction against the stop-work order the Trump administration slapped on the nation’s largest offshore wind project.

Equinor won a temporary injunction against the Trump administration’s stop-work order on U.S. offshore wind projects, allowing it to resume work on Empire Wind.

A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Department of Energy acted illegally when it terminated several energy grants because they were based in Democratic-leaning states.

A judge has lifted the stop-work order against Revolution Wind, one of the five offshore wind projects shut down by the Trump administration in December.

At an oversight hearing on new nuclear capacity, the two parties touted recent bipartisan legislation as helping move things forward, but Democrats said Trump administration cuts and moves to curb the NRC's independence creates crosswinds.

The renewable energy industry and its advocates have initiated two more lawsuits against the Trump administration over its continuing campaign against wind and solar energy development.