Washington, D.C. – January 16, 2026 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement: 

“We applaud this week’s federal court rulings restarting U.S. offshore wind projects. These decisions mean many NABTU members can finally return to job sites and continue building critical domestic energy infrastructure. Today’s ruling in the Eastern District of Virginia on Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project, along with recent decisions in the District of Columbia on Ørsted’s Revolution Wind and Equinor’s Empire Wind projects, clears the way for construction to resume on essential domestic power generation development.

“The shutdown order issued by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on December 22, 2025 stalled every East Coast offshore wind project, freezing massive builds in place and sidelining our members, local communities, and urgently needed domestic energy supply. NABTU filed amicus briefs supporting all three cases to get these job sites moving again. In each case, the courts rejected the shutdown and allowed construction to restart immediately.

“With energy demand surging and prices spiking, the last thing our government should do is take any form of power generation offline. The men and women of NABTU are proud to be constructing every offshore wind project in the United States, all under strong project labor agreements. These rulings mean our members can get back to work and keep affordable, clean, reliable power moving to our communities.”

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