Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction blocking the baseless stop work order that had halted construction of Revolution Wind, allowing work on the project to resume immediately. The preliminary injunction was granted in the case filed by Orsted. A parallel challenge filed by Connecticut and Rhode Island is pending in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, where the states have also sought a preliminary injunction.

“This is a major win for Connecticut workers and for Connecticut families who need this project on track now so it can start to drive down our unaffordable energy bills. The court today unequivocally affirmed what we all have seen since this baseless stop work order was first issued. The Trump Administration’s erratic action was the height of arbitrary and capricious, and failed to satisfy any statutory provisions needed to halt work on a fully approved and nearly complete project. It was not a close call,” said Attorney General Tong. “The Trump Administration should see the writing on the wall with this decision and drop its defense of their indefensible actions. Every day that this project is stymied is a day of lost employment, another day of unaffordable energy costs, and another day burning fossil fuels when American-made clean energy is within reach.”