Trump's Wind Farm Freeze: Because Who Needs Power When You Have Lawsuits?

KEY POINTS

•Dominion Energy filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Trump administration's pause of offshore wind projects.
•The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order on five wind farms, including the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.
•Dominion argues the pause is unlawful and infringes upon constitutional limits on executive power.

Dominion Energy, the utility serving Virginia's so-called 'data center alley,' just got shoved into the 21st-century wind-turbine drama by the Trump administration. This past Monday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) dropped a stop-work order on five offshore wind farms already under construction, including Dominion's pet project: the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind. Dominion’s Tuesday complaint slammed the pause as 'arbitrary and capricious,' accusing Trump’s exec branch of ignoring constitutional limits—a fancy way of saying, 'Hey, quit blocking our giant fans, please.' Now, Dominion hopes a federal court will move faster than a Virginia SSI check, aiming to turn that bureaucratic tornado back into a breeze.

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Nothing says 'energy policy' like hitting the pause button on giant spinning fans while suing the guy who pressed it. Clean energy, meet courtroom drama.

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