{"id":413097,"date":"2025-11-13T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=413097"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:08:22","slug":"federal-judge-clears-trump-administration-to-revoke-ma-offshore-wind-project-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=413097","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Clears Trump Administration to Revoke MA Offshore Wind Project Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Rhode Island bureaucrats give a big thumbs-up to SouthCoast Wind transmission line plan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted by Leslie Eastman<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump clearly has the climate cultists and green grifters among his top targets during his very busy second term, which began with his signing an executive order<\/a> in January to halt new or renewed offshore wind leases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it looks like the plug is going to be pulled from a massive offshore East Coast wind farm project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in September<\/a>, I reported that federal regulators were moving to revoke approval of SouthCoast Wind\u2019s construction and operations plan, the final major permit required before offshore turbine installation. The project, located about 23 miles south of Nantucket, was slated to build up to 141 turbines supposedly capable of powering roughly 840,000 homes in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A federal judge has now ruled that the Trump administration may proceed with revoking<\/a> federal permits<\/a> for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trump administration signaled its intent to reconsider the permit in September, claiming that the Environmental Impact Statement for the project may have \u201cunderstated or obfuscated impacts\u201d that would possibly result in noncompliance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

District Court for the District of Columbia judge Tanya Chutkan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled<\/a> in favor of the White House Tuesday, saying that the project developers would not suffer from \u201cimmediate and significant hardship\u201d if the administration proceeded with the reconsideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision effectively allows the administration to strip the project of its federal approval, blocking it from being built under President Donald Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A federal district court judge has ruled that the US interior department can scrap the approval of the construction and operations plan (COP) for the 2.4GW SouthCoast Wind project off Massachusetts#windpower<\/a> #renewables<\/a> #energytransition<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/t5Ak8bGVmc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QPrTPVoG89<\/a><\/p>— Windpower Monthly (@windpower_m) November 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>