Posted on June 18, 2025
CEO testimony in 17-state suit against President’s sector attack reveals Administration slow rolling permits to strangle project
Ocean Winds warned that Donald Trump’s anti-offshore wind memorandum could delay or even derail entirely its 1.2GW SouthCoast array to Massachusetts and Rhode Island, signaling another potential casualty in the President’s ongoing sector war.
As long promised, Trump issued a memorandum freezing offshore wind permitting and leasing on his first day in office and recently said: “We’re not going to let windmills destroy our country any more than it’s already been destroyed.”
The memo, which also put existing projects under review with a goal of termination, was a hammer blow to the already hard-pressed sector, and paused all but the three developments already in construction.
