June 29, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. – Duke Energy accepted $129 million in taxpayer money to buyout an offshore wind lease, making it the latest company to accept such an offer from Trump’s Department of the Interior. Northeast states and California
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June 24, 2026
Sacramento, CA – Yesterday, the California Attorney General and California Energy Commission (CEC) filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for its backroom deal that led to the cancellation of a major offshore wind project in exchange for out-of-state fossil fuel development.
June 17, 2026
Washington, D.C. - According to reporting, Donald Trump is paying Invenergy $765 million to abandon its four offshore wind leases.
June 2, 2026
NORTHEAST — Today, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Department of the Interior's $1 billion buyout of TotalEnergies' offshore wind leases, a move that led the company to abandon its U.S. offshore wind projects in exchange for doubling down on fossil fuel investments, including LNG exports in the Gulf.
March 23, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior paid TotalEnergies $1 billion for the energy company to abandon its offshore wind projects.
February 2, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration lost yet another legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This is the fifth and final offshore wind project that has successfully challenged the administration’s stop-work order.
January 15, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction for yet another one of Donald Trump’s bans on offshore wind. In December 2025, Donald Trump’s Department of Interior issued an all-out pause on all offshore wind projects, including projects that were nearly completed.
December 22, 2025
NATIONAL — Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1.
December 9, 2025
Boston, MA - Last night, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Donald Trump’s executive order banning wind projects in the United States was unlawful and vacated the order.
September 22, 2025
Washington, D.C. - A federal judge has overturned the stop rule order issued by the Trump administration on the Revolution Wind project in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
September 19, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Trump Administration moved to rescind the SouthCoast offshore wind project’s permit. This is the latest in a string of attacks on fully permitted, rigorously vetted offshore wind projects.
September 15, 2025
Washington, D.C. - On Friday, the Trump Administration filed a lawsuit seeking to revoke the Maryland Offshore Wind Project’s permit after a string of attacks on offshore wind.