WASHINGTON — A federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters Monday, dealing a significant legal setback to the administration’s campaign against wind farms.

Judge Patti Saris of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts wrote that the president’s executive order, which halted all leasing of public lands and waters for new wind projects, was “arbitrary and capricious,” violating federal law.

Saris, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, said the Interior Department had not provided a “reasoned explanation” of its decision to stop approving wind projects, as required by the Administrative Procedure Act. Instead, she said, the “agency defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered i

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