Bucking the Trump administration, a federal judge has ruled that a nearly complete offshore wind project can continue construction for the time being.

Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted a preliminary injunction Monday that temporarily allows Revolution Wind to keep building its wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.

Lamberth wrote that the wind developer is “likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction.”

The move comes after the Trump administration issued a stop-work order against the offshore wind farm in August, part of its

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