New York, California Sue to Block Trump Administration Deals Canceling Offshore Wind Projects
The states say the deals would cost taxpayers $1.4 billion and block projects on both coasts.
- On Tuesday, Democratic attorneys general from California and New York sued the Trump administration to block plans to buy back offshore wind leases as the president seeks to discourage wind energy expansion.
- The Trump administration pledged nearly $4 billion to companies to abandon projects, including $1.4 billion for cancellations involving Chicago-based Invenergy and Bluepoint Wind off the New York and New Jersey coast.
- New York Attorney General Letitia James led seven states including Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the suit; James stated these deals will increase Americans' electricity bills by sabotaging states' energy demands.
- Speaking at Climate Week in New York City, California Attorney General Rob Bonta described the lawsuit as necessary to combat what he called "avoidable and unnecessary battles with our own federal government" over clean energy.
- President Donald Trump has stated his goal is to not let any "windmills" be built, while the administration confirmed buybacks for four wind projects on the East and West coasts.
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States file new lawsuits against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind
An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the government spending billions of dollars to block wind projects.
Maine, northeast states file new lawsuit against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind
An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the government spending billions of dollars to block wind projects. Attorneys general from eight East Coast states are suing the feds over the buyouts of two offshore wind leases, under […]
California Sues Trump Administration Over Deal To Kill Local Offshore Wind Project
SAN FRANCISCO (KEYT) – Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the legality of a the deal struck between a California-based offshore wind company and the Trump Administration to abandon a local offshore wind energy project for an over $111 million taxpayer buyout. "For almost a decade, the State of California has worked closely with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), under both …
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