Revolution Wind is already sending electricity to New England, and all 65 turbines are installed. Now the Trump administration is challenging the federal approval that allowed the offshore wind farm to be built. Again. Yes, really.

The Interior Department asked a federal court on October 9 to send the project’s construction and operations plan approval back to the agency for reconsideration. The request creates another hurdle for a 704-megawatt (MW) wind farm that’s already survived two Trump administration attempts to stop construction.

But the DOI’s filing hasn’t stopped the turbines or revoked the offshore wind farm’s permit. The DOI’s request has to go to court, and Revolution Wind is expected to reach full commercial operation later this year.

The latest move comes as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed in 2024 by the anti-wind group Green Oceans, which challenged federal approvals for Revolution Wind and the nearby South Fork Wind project.

Trump’s Interior now wants to reconsider whether Revolution Wind’s approval complied with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Its filing argues that the original decision didn’t adequately explain how the project’s impacts fit with protections for other ocean uses, including fishing and recreation, according to CT Mirror.

This is a completely different argument from the national security concerns the administration previously used to try to halt offshore wind construction.

Interior ordered work stopped at Revolution Wind in August 2025, then targeted it again in December alongside four other offshore wind projects. Court injunctions allowed construction to resume.

In a statement reported by CT Mirror , Interior said it was “complying with a briefing schedule, not announcing a policy change.” (Yeah, I don’t know what that word jumble means, either.)

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