Vineyard Wind has now joined the legal battle against the Trump administration with a lawsuit that calls the stop work order placed on offshore wind construction unlawful.

In U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Judge Royce Lamberth granted Revolution Wind a preliminary injunction against the stop work order issued by the Department of the Interior in December. 

In court filings last week, Revolution Wind, the 65-turbine wind farm located 12 miles off the coast of Aquinnah, said the Department of Interior’s decision to halt leases for reported national security concerns was against the law.

In a letter to the offshore wind farm last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said Vineyard Wind "may continue any activities from those wind turbines that are necessary for the current level of power generation."

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is pausing the leases for several offshore wind energy projects under construction south of the Vineyard due to national security risks, the latest escalation from the President in his campaign against wind turbines. 

A federal judge in Massachusetts this week vacated President Donald Trump’s executive order that halted all permitting for offshore wind energy projects, a major victory for the industry off the Vineyard’s coast that has been under fire during his second term.