As of May 5, 2025, Michigan joined attorneys general (AGs) from 17 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration for halting wind energy projects. [1] The plaintiffs, which included New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, and Delaware, filed the suit against President Trump, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and the Department of Commerce, among others. The AGs allege that their states are being harmed by Trump’s executive order that halted federal approvals for onshore and offshore wind energy projects. In a press release, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General said that the directive threatens to thwart states’ significant investments in wind industry infrastructure, supply chains, and workforce development, investments that already total billions of dollars. The lawsuit states that “the Wind Directive has stopped most wind-energy development in its tracks, despite the fact that wind energy is a homegrown source of reliable, affordable energy that supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, creates billions of dollars in economic activity and tax payments, and supplies more than 10% of the country’s electricity.”

[1] https://www.mass.gov/doc/offshore-wind-complaint/download