Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:23 PM EST, December 8, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.

Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.

Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, that challenged Trump’s Day One order that paused leasing and permitting for wind energy projects. Trump has been hostile to renewable energy, particularly offshore wind, and prioritizes fossil fuels to produce electricity.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell hailed the ruling as a victory for green jobs and renewable energy. “Massachusetts has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into offshore wind, and today, we successfully protected those important investments from the Trump administration’s unlawful order,” Campbell said in a statement.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Too bad it took so long for this ruling to appear. But at least it finally did.

We need more wind power, not less.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. we need all more alternatives as well.:)

[debsy]

2. No doubt it will be appealed

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you, Massachusetts!

The coalition that opposed Trump’s order argued that Trump doesn’t have the authority to halt project permitting, and that doing so jeopardizes the states’ economies, energy mix, public health and climate goals.

The coalition includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington state and Washington, D.C.

[progree]

5. NextEra to build 15 gigawatts of power for data centers by 2035 - almost all of it natural gas

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nextera-to-build-15-gigawatts-of-power-for-data-centers-by-2035/ar-AA1RWyEi

NextEra to build 15 gigawatts of power for data centers by 2035, CNBC, 12/8/25

. . . A gigawatt is roughly equivalent to more than 800,000 homes based on average household electricity consumption in 2024, according to the Energy Information Administration.

. . . The data center hubs will use all forms of energy, Ketchum said. NextEra announced a deal with Google in October to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa through a power purchase agreement. ((Duane Arnold is 615 MW = 0.615 GW, per NextEra. It was shut down in 2020 --progree))

The data center hubs will help NextEra meet its target of building four to eight gigawatts of new gas generation by 2032 and considerably more by 2035, Ketchum said. NextEra is developing a pipeline of 20 gigawatts of gas generation.

Ketchum acknowledged that the huge power demand from AI data centers is raising affordability concerns. He said the solution is for the big tech companies to bring their own power generation with them when they commit to build a data center.

(all underlining and highlighting is progree's)

No mention at all of any solar or wind in this article.

More about NextEra and the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant - but note that it (0.6 GW) is almost trivial compared to 20 GW of natural gas.
https://newsroom.nexteraenergy.com/NextEra-Energy-and-Google-Announce-New-Collaboration-to-Accelerate-Nuclear-Energy-Deployment-in-the-U-S?l=12

Fun excerpt quoting the NextEra CEO --

Thanks to the leadership of the Trump Administration, Google and NextEra Energy are answering the call of America’s golden age of power demand

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So they got the memo about who to suck up to if they want anything approved

[NNadir]

6. As an opponent of wind energy AND the orange pedophile...

...I'm ambivalent.

The wind industry is tightly dependent on dangerous fossil fuels. Perhaps if the orange pedophile was educated about energy, he would be cheering for wind.

He is not educated about energy however. Neither are, in my view, people who regard so called "renewable energy" as if it were a good thing. The land, sea and mass implications are atrocious and unsustainable.

The popularity of so called "renewable energy" is one reason the collapse of the planetary atmosphere has accelerated in this century. It's nothing different than treating cancer with prayer and laetrile, the latter involving cyanide, a popular and sometimes widely believed lie.

"Renewable energy" has demonstrated, at a cost of trillions of dollars, no result in addressing the use of fossil fuels, none, zero.

It was, however, never about attacking fossil fuels.

It's sole purpose was to attack nuclear energy, its only success, a pernicious success with baleful implications on the future.

The Germans didn't shut their coal plants by embracing the "renewable energy" fantasy. They shut their clean nuclear plants They embraced coal. Their carbon intensity is thus deplorable, obscenely worse than neighboring France.

These realities may not be popular to recognize on our end of the political spectrum but they are what they are, realities.