The order represents a rare — and, at least for now, temporary — win for the offshore wind industry, which has been a frequent target of the Trump administration.

The Trump administration asked a federal judge to allow it to revoke a key permit for SouthCoast Wind, a project that could power about 1.4 million homes in the region.

The Wednesday filing says the Trump administration's stop-work order caused "irreparable harm" to the states by "undermining their sovereign interests in procuring renewable energy."

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order on Aug. 22.

Connecticut officials are reacting with frustration to the Trump administration’s recent order to stop construction on Revolution Wind, an offshore wind farm project that was poised to soon provide electricity to at least 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.

Getting information about the state’s only offshore wind project under construction has been difficult in the last six months. CAI and the Martha’s Vineyard Times teamed up last week to visit Vineyard Wind by boat, to see what visual evidence we could find of the project status.

Monday is the signing deadline for the state’s latest round of offshore wind contracts, but it’s unclear if any of the developers selected in September plan to sign.

The chair of the Sierra Club's Cape and Islands group says support for the wind lawsuit may be broader than it appears — including in some Republican-led states. But if the states win, the Trump administration could find ways to work around it.

Commercial fishing interests sued the federal agencies involved in approving the wind farm, which is under construction 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.