Federal Court Strikes Down Interior Order Suspending Wind Energy Development

What You Need to Know

• Key takeaway #1
  
  The district court vacated an Interior Department order implementing a January 2025 executive order pausing federal agency actions necessary to continue wind energy development both onshore and offshore.
• Key takeaway #2
  
  Next steps for pending applications are still to be determined, as is the broader commercial fallout of the decision, which is still subject to appeal and, if nothing else, further administrative process.
• Key takeaway #3
  
  The district court reaffirmed that agency actions taken at the behest of a president are still subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act, absent other statutory provisions precluding such review; and that wholesale vacatur of agency action under the APA, as opposed to the universal injunctions disapproved of in Trump v. CASA, is still an available remedy for unlawful agency action.