A coalition of state general prosecutors filed a claim on Monday against the attempt of President Donald Trump to stop the development of wind energy.
The general prosecutors of 17 states and Washington, DC, are challenging a executive order that Trump signed During his first day in office, pausing approvals, permits and loans for all wind energy projects both on land and on the high seas. They say that Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally close the permit process, and is jeopardizing the development of a critical energy source for economic vitality, the combination of energy, public health and the climate objectives of the states.
They ask a federal judge to declare the illegal order and prevent federal agencies from implementing it.
“This arbitrary and unnecessary directive threatens the loss of thousands of well -paid jobs and billions in investments, and is delaying our transition away from fossil fuels that damage our health and our planet,” he said in a statement by the New York Attorney General Letitia James, who directs the coalition.
White House spokesman Taylor Rogers said that democratic general prosecutors are “using the law to stop the president’s popular energy agenda”, instead of working with him to unleash US energy and the lowest prices for families.
“The American people voted for the president to restore the United States energy domain, and Americans in the blue states should not have to pay the price of the radical climate agenda of the Democrats,” Rogers said in a statement to Associated Press.
Trump promised during the campaign To end the wind industry on the high seas If he returned to the White House. His order said there were “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the lease and federal government permits” of wind projects, and directed the Secretary of the Interior to review wind lease practices and permits for federal waters and lands.
The claim was filed in a federal court in Massachusetts.
The Biden administration saw the wind on the high seas as a climate change solution, Establish national objectivestenure Sales rental and approve almost a dozen projects at a commercial scale. Trump is reversing those energy policies. He is Increasing fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal, which cause climate change, arguing that it is necessary for the United States to have the energy and electricity of lower cost in the world.
The Trump administration took a more aggressive step against the wind in April when it ordered the Norwegian company Equinor Stop the construction of the Empire windA fully allowed project located southeast Long Island, New York, which is complete in approximately 30%. Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, said it seemed that the administration drove approval.
Equinor went through a permits process seven years before starting to generate Epir Wind last year to provide energy to 500,000 New York houses. Equinor is considering legal options, which would be separated from the complaint filed on Monday. The Norwegian government has a majority participation in Equinor.
The wind provides about 10% of the electricity generated in the United States, which makes it the largest renewable energy source in the country. General prosecutors argue that Trump’s order disagree with years of bipartisan support for wind energy and contradicts his own declaration of “National Energy Emergency” which asked to expand the production of domestic energy.
The coalition includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Washington, DC, they say they have invested hundreds of millions of millions of millions of millions of millions of millions of millions of millions of millions. wind and even more in the transmission lines to take to the transmission lines to provide the transmission lines to bring to the transmission so that the degrees of the wind and the electricity apose hundreds of hundreds of millions of millions of people to develop the wind energy and even more in the transmission lines to bring to the transmission so that the degrees of the wind and the electricity have the hundreds of hundreds.
New York governor Kathy Hochul said the executive order sows chaos, when companies need clear regulations to operate effectively.
Large winding parks based on ocean are The key piece of the state plans to change to renewable energy, particularly in populated states of the east coast with limited lands. The first seas wind farm in the nation’s commercial scale opened a year agoA 12 turbine wind farm east of Montauk Point, New York. A smaller wind park operates near Block Island in waters controlled by the state of Rhode Island.
Massachusetts has three wind projects on the high seas in several stages of development, they include Vineyard wind. The State has invested in the offshore wind to ensure that residents have access to well -paid green works and reliable and affordable energy, said Massachusetts attorney general Andrea Campbell.
The Trump administration has also suspended federal funds for wind research at the high Mar Mar Mar in Maine and revoked a permission for a high -sea wind project proposed in New Jersey.
In other places, political leaders are trying to quickly increase wind energy. United Kingling Keir Starmer’s Prime Ministerannounced a great investment in wind energy in April while organizing an international summit on energy security. Nueva Scotia plans to offer leases for five gigawatts of wind energy on the high seas by 2030, he said last week of the Prime Minister of New Scotland, Tim Houston, in Virginia last week at a conference of the Oceanitic Network.
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