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Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal.

US District Judge Patti Saris said Monday the order is “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” siding with more than a dozen US states and a clean energy group that had challenged it.

The president’s directive — issued in January, hours after he returned to the White House for a second term — effectively halted federal approvals of wind farms on land and sea pending a federal review. The order froze dozens of clean energy projects, including massive installations planned off the Eastern seaboard. Developer

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