{"id":72415,"date":"2026-04-22T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-restrictions-on-wind-and-solar-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:54:48","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-restrictions-on-wind-and-solar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-restrictions-on-wind-and-solar-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injunction pauses policy giving senior Trump official direct sign-off on federal clean energy projects<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> actions slowing down development of clean energy, including a requirement that all solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters be personally approved by the interior secretary, Doug Burgum.<\/p>\n<p>Denise J Casper, chief judge of the US district court for Massachusetts, ruled that a coalition of plaintiffs representing wind and solar developers were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that the administration\u2019s actions violate federal statute and would cause irreparable harm if the court did not intervene.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/trump-wind-solar-clean-energy-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injunction pauses policy giving senior Trump official direct sign-off on federal clean energy projects A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down several Trump administration actions slowing down development of clean energy, including a requirement that all solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters be personally approved by the interior &#8230; <a title=\"Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-restrictions-on-wind-and-solar-projects\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}