7 States Sue Trump Administration over TotalEnergies Offshore Wind Lease Buyout

NJ, 6 other states sue Trump over offshore wind buyout

TRENTON — New Jersey joined six other states Tuesday in suing President Donald Trump's administration, seeking to cancel a deal it made with a French company to abandon an offshore wind farm off the coast of New York and invest…

Northeast states challenge offshore wind lease settlement

BOSTON — With 7% of the region’s energy load arriving from New York, five New England states are banding together in a new lawsuit alleging that federal officials entered an unlawful settlement that resulted in the cancellation of the lease…

7 states sue Trump administration over TotalEnergies offshore wind lease buyout

The lawsuit calls the deal a “sham settlement agreement to unlawfully cancel an offshore wind lease and redirect the money paid for the lease to a separate, unauthorized use favored by the President.”

States sue Trump administration over offshore wind deal

Mass., six states sue Trump administration over deal to end offshore wind project

New York, Massachusetts, and five other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project. Under a deal made public in March, French company TotalEnergies is getting $1 billion — essentially a refund of its leases for offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina — if it invests the money in fossil fuel projects instead. State attorneys general from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New …