U.S. Department of the Interior Loses Five Court Rulings in Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Farm Projects
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On February 2, 2026, a federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted Sunrise Wind LLC, the developer of the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project off of New York State, a preliminary injunction against a United States Department of the Interior (“DOI”) stop work order. The case is Sunrise Wind LLC v. Burgum, No. 1-26-cv-00028.
The DOI issued the stop work order on December 22, 2025, for five such projects, citing “…national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.”
The Sunrise Wind project will be the fifth such project to resume construction after earlier injunctions in favor of each of the other four: Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, and Empire Wind.
The National Resource Defense Council (“NRDC”) said the projects: “…collectively have the capacity to deliver nearly six gigawatts of power to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million U.S. homes.”
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