Press Release  AG Campbell Files Amicus Brief To Prevent Federal Government From Delaying New England Wind 1 Project

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today filed an amicus brief in opposition to the Trump Administration’s attempt to halt development of the New England Wind 1 project, a wind energy project off the coast of Massachusetts that is expected to provide power to more than 300,000 homes in the Commonwealth. In her brief, which supports Avangrid Power, AG Campbell explains that the completion of New England 1 is critical to meeting increased energy demand with affordable, reliable energy — particularly in these cold winter months — and to protecting the state’s economy and achieving Massachusetts’s clean energy goals. 

On December 12, the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) filed a motion in an existing court case asking the court to allow BOEM to reconsider its own approval of New England Wind 1’s construction and operations plan, a critical permit that underpins the development of the project. 

In her brief, AG Campbell explains that if BOEM’s request is allowed, Massachusetts and its residents would face serious economic harm, undermining the Commonwealth’s ability to plan for and secure lower-cost, reliable energy for ratepayers and jeopardizing the creation of good-paying jobs. The New England Wind 1 project is also critical to meeting Massachusetts’s statutory requirements to procure offshore wind energy, increase reliance on renewable energy sources, and reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions. Without the project, Massachusetts also would lose an important tool for protecting residents and the environment from the significant public health and environmental harms caused by pollution from fossil fueled energy sources.

The brief encourages the court to deny the federal government’s motion to remand New England Wind 1’s construction and operations plan.

This action is AG Campbell’s latest effort to protect the development of offshore wind from the federal government’s baseless attacks. In January 2026, AG Campbell filed an amicus brief successfully urging the Court to support Vineyard Wind in its lawsuit against the Trump Administration for attempting to halt construction on the nearly complete Vineyard Wind project. In May 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of attorneys general in successfully suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to freeze the development of wind energy. In January 2026, AG Campbell led a coalition of 20 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief in defense of the states’ decades-long investments in large-scale wind and solar energy projects as a means of ensuring reliable, clean, and affordable electricity for their residents.

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