The court is clear: The administration's orders are groundless, illegal, and need to stop. Photo: Shutterstock
June 15, 2026 (Boston, MA) – The US First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary decision issued by a lower federal court in December 2025 rejecting the Trump administration’s unlawful moratorium on offshore wind permitting.
“Once again, thanks to Attorney General Campbell and attorneys general in 18 states, the rule of law has triumphed over the Trump administration’s arbitrary attempts to stop clean energy,” said Kate Sinding Daly, Conservation Law Foundation Senior Vice President of Law and Policy.
“This ruling ends another important front in the administration’s relentless war on offshore wind – one waged without merit and aimed to benefit the petroleum industry. It helps preserve clean, affordable energy projects that have already created thousands of jobs in New England alone and lowered energy bills. CLF and our partners originally filed a ‘friend of the court’ legal brief in support of the lawsuit. We know that the future of clean, homegrown energy is in our waters and in our hands, as proven by the extraordinary performance of New England offshore wind this past winter.”
The decision is the result of the 19 attorneys general suing the administration for its destructive decision to pause all permitting. The court’s move is yet another major loss for the Trump administration’s efforts to bring back polluting, expensive, climate-killing energy from coal, oil and gas. The court is clear: The administration’s orders are groundless, illegal, and need to stop.
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