Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge

A national justice connected Monday overturned President Donald Trump's sweeping prohibition connected caller wind power projects successful the U.S., a large triumph for an manufacture that has been singled retired by the White House since the administration's archetypal day.

Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Trump's prohibition is "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law," tossing retired the president's enactment successful its entirey.

Trump issued a memorandum connected Jan. 20 banning the improvement of offshore upwind farms successful U.S. coastal waters and paused permits for onshore projects.

Seventeen states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump successful May to overturn the president's ban. They argued that it created "an existential menace to the wind industry."

States successful the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic successful peculiar person been pursuing offshore upwind projects to conscionable aboriginal vigor request arsenic they question to trim carbon-dioxide emissions.

"As New Yorkers look rising vigor costs, we request much vigor sources, not fewer," James said successful a statement. "Wind vigor is bully for our environment, our economy, and our communities. I americium grateful the tribunal stepped successful to artifact the administration's reckless and unlawful crusade against cleanable energy."