Ten months after the Trump administration halted all offshore wind energy permitting, Massachusetts officials are calling out the federal government for having no end date in sight and none of the promised environmental reviews.
SouthCoast Wind, which plans to build 141 turbines off the coast of the Vineyard, is pushing back against what it calls a “bad faith” campaign from the federal government to shut down renewable energy projects.
Several Island towns have begun discussing the potential to create an agreement that would demand better communication and planning from Vineyard Wind.
Construction on the 65-turbine Revolution Wind project off the coast of Aquinnah can resume after a federal district court judge granted the developers reprieve from a stop work order issued by the Trump administration.
Revolution Wind is calling on a federal judge to toss out an order from the Trump administration that stopped construction on the fully permitted offshore wind energy farm off Aquinnah.
In recent court filings, members of the Trump administration say they intend to rollback the approval of construction plans for SouthCoast Wind, a wind farm that was greenlit in the waning days of the Biden administration, as well as New England Wind.