Wacko Leftist Judge Says Trump Admin Cannot Halt All Wind Projects

I wonder where this judge was when Biden was halting all oil drilling permits

US judge rejects Trump administration’s halt of wind energy permits

A federal judge on Monday struck down an order by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to halt all federal approvals for new wind energy projects, saying that agencies’ efforts to implement his directive were unlawful and arbitrary.

Agencies including the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency have been implementing a directive to halt all new approvals needed for both onshore and offshore wind projects pending a review of leasing and permitting practices.

Siding with, opens new tab a group of 17 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston said those agencies had failed to provide reasoned explanations for the actions they took to carry out the directive Trump issued on his first day back in office on January 20.

They could not lawfully under the Administrative Procedure Act indefinitely decline to review applications for permits, added Saris, who was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

One question would be whether the judges has far exceeded her mandate per the SCOTUS decision in Trump v. CASA, with federal judges not allowed to make sweeping, nationwide rulings/injunctions. That rulings would only apply to their own districts, unless in small cases where it is “class action.” Would this be class action? Is there any law requiring the Executive Branch to approve the permits? Or just the judge’s feeling?

Seriously, is there a law that states that stopping permit approval processing needs a big reason? What if the Trump admin just simply goes through the approval process and denies them all? I wonder if the judge has a financial stake in one of those projects?

Trump administration moves to revoke key permit from another offshore wind project proposed near Mass.

More than a year after the Biden administration issued the final permit for a pair of proposed offshore wind projects near Massachusetts, the Trump administration is trying to take it back.

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. to “remand,” or reconsider, its approval of the construction and operations plan for the projects, New England Wind 1 and 2. The plan is the last major permit an offshore wind project needs to begin construction.

The motion is the latest move by the Trump administration to target the offshore wind industry in the U.S., and it comes just a few weeks after a federal judge in a different, but similar, case ruled that the government could take a second look at the construction and operations plan it approved for SouthCoast Wind, a proposed wind project also near Massachusetts.

The federal government’s motion to reconsider New England Wind’s permit says its prior approval “may have” failed to account for all of the project’s impacts. The filing cited a relatively new interpretation of the federal law known as the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that changes the criteria to evaluate offshore wind projects.

Well, that looks like an “adequate reason.” How about opposition in many cases from those who live near or fish there? From environmentalists? I have no problem with wind projects, in certain cases, but, really, they do not provide as much power as you think for the cost, and, tons of the federal money in “loans” ends up being graft and waste. Slush funds. How many “green” projects have been utter failures, but, saw a lot of money flow into people’s pockets, then back to Democrats. How about this? Audit them all. See exactly where the money went, how it was spent. Then we can talk.