Courts Overturns Trump Shutdown of Vineyard Offshore Wind Project

A federal court in Massachusetts handed the Trump administration a fourth reversal Jan. 27 in its bid to shut down East Coast offshore wind projects, allowing Vineyard Wind to resume construction on its 95% complete turbine array.

Judge Brian E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court late Tuesday afternoon allowed Vineyard Wind to resume all activities on its federal lease area and the 804-megawatt rated project off southern New England. Vineyard Wind had fallen under the Interior Department’s blanket Dec. 22 stop-work order on five projects that alleged new secret information had revealed national security threats with radar interference from the projects.