Multiple energy developers have announced legal action against the Trump administration's suspension of leases for their United States wind projects.
Norwegian energy group Equinor confirmed last Friday it had filed an injunction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Danish wind power developer, Ørsted, announced it was also taking legal action again the Trump administration after its U.S. based project Revolution was similarly suspended, saying that the suspension of the lease “violates applicable law”.
Three other leases for similar large scale, offshore wind projects were suspended at the same time by the Department of the Interior, 10 days ago.
The Revolution project is worth $5 billion and was underway off the coast of Rhode Island, before Ørsted's lease was suspended by the White House, citing national security risks.
In a statement, Equinor said that it viewed the suspensions to be “unlawful and threatens the progress of ongoing work with significant implications for the project.”
“The preliminary injunction filing is necessary to allow the project to continue as planned during this critical period of execution and avoid additional commercial and financing impacts that are likely to occur should the order remain effective,” the statement read.
This is latest of many legal challenges by the wind industry against the administration of Donald Trump with the president openly standing with the fossil fuels industry since he returned to office in January 2025.
Trump has previously labelled wind turbines ugly, costly and inefficient.
