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Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration has voluntarily dismissed its own appeal in a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s executive order banning wind project development in the United States. This effectively ends the unlawful, sweeping ban on wind power.
Attorneys General from 17 states and Washington, D.C. challenged this executive order last year. Public interest groups including the Sierra Club filed an amicus brief in support of the challenge. When the District Court of Massachusetts struck down the executive order in December, the judge referred to the order as “capricious and arbitrary.”
Donald Trump’s administration also issued stop-work orders on offshore wind projects currently under construction. The five orders were all overturned in court.
In response, Sierra Club Senior Advisor Nancy Pyne issued the following statement:
