Courts block Interior Department’s offshore wind work stoppages

The Guardian
The Guardian 21h USA
In recent weeks, four federal judges issued temporary injunctions preventing the Interior Department from halting work on five advanced-stage offshore wind projects in Virginia, New York and New England.
Courts block Interior Department’s offshore wind work stoppages
Why it matters
The injunctions keep construction and contracting activity moving on projects that have already absorbed billions in sunk costs, reducing near-term risk of schedule slippage and termination claims tied to federal stop-work actions. They also constrain the administration’s ability to use Interior Department directives as a rapid lever to pause offshore wind development while litigation proceeds. Developers, lenders and suppliers can treat the projects as operationally “live” in the near term, but should plan for continued legal overhead and potential policy whiplash as cases advance.
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