
The coalition of general prosecutors filed a lawsuit on Monday against the attempt of President Donald Trump to stop the development of wind energy.
General lawyers from 17 states and Washington The executive order was signed by Trump During the first day of office, he stops approval, permission and loans for all wind energy projects both on land and at sea. They say that Trump does not have the right to unilaterally close the process of issuing permits, and it threatens the development of the source of critical power supply for the economic vitality of countries, energy mixture, public health and climate goals.
They ask the federal judge for an unlawful order and stopping the federal agencies before its implementation.
“This arbitrary and unnecessary directive threatens the loss of thousands of well-paid jobs and billions of investments and delays our transition from fossil fuels, which harm our health and our planet,” said the prosecutor General of New York Letitia James in a statement, who conducts a coalition.
A spokesman for the White House, Taylor Rogers, said that democratic prosecutors “use the right to stop the popular President’s Energy Program” instead of cooperating with him to free American energy and lower prices for families.
“The American nation voted for president to restore American energy dominance, and Americans in the Blue States should not pay the price of a radical democrat climate program,” Rogers said in a statement for the Associated Press.
Trump vowed during the campaign To finish the wind industry at sea If he returned to the White House. His order stated that “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the leasing of the federal government” wind projects, and recommended the secretary to the internal inspection of wind leasing and permission to practice federal waters and earth.
The claim was filed in a federal court in Massachusetts.
Trump’s order was aimed at the priority of the Biden climate plan
Biden administration saw the wind at sea as a climate change solution, Setting national goalsholding Lease sale and approval of almost dozen projects on a commercial scale. Trump reverses these energy principles. He is Increasing fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal that cause climate change, arguing that the US must have the lowest energy and electricity in the world.
The Trump administration took a more aggressive step against the wind in April, when she ordered the Norwegian company Equinor Halt Construction on Empire WindA fully allowed project located southeast of Long Island in New York, which is completed about 30%. The Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said that it seems that the Biden administration threw approval.
Equinor underwent a seven -year permission process before he started building the Empire Wind last year to provide power of 500,000 houses in New York. Equinor considers legal options that would be separate from the complaint lodged on Monday. The Norwegian government has a majority participation in Equinor.
The wind provides about 10% of electricity generated in the United States, which makes it the largest source of renewable energy in the country. General proxies say that Trump’s order is contrary to the years of bilateral support for wind energy and denies its own declaration “National Emergency” which required the extension of domestic energy production.
States have already invested immense sums in the development of wind energy
The coalition includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New York, Rhode Island, Washington and Washington, DC To develop wind energy, and even in the entitlement of the transmission line to the wind to the electric offer.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that the executive ordinance sows chaos when companies need clear regulations for effective action.
Large wind farms based on the ocean are State Linchpin plans to go to renewable energy, Especially in populated states on the east coast with circumscribed soil. The first commercial wind farm in the country at sea open a year ago12 turbine wind farm east of Montauk Point, New York. The smaller wind farm works near Block Island in waters controlled by the state of Rhode Island.
Massachusetts has invested in the wind at sea to provide residents with access to well -paid green jobs and reliable, inexpensive energy, said Massachusetts andrea Campbell, Prosecutor General. The state has three coastal wind projects at various stages of development, cover Vineyard wind. On Monday, the United States Supreme Court refused to consider the case brought by fishing organizations questioning the approval of the wind of vineyards.
The Trump administration also suspended federal funds for floating at sea at the wind in Maine and withdrew permission to the proposed wind project at sea in New Jersey.
Elsewhere, political leaders try to quickly augment wind energy. Prime Minister of Great Britain Keir Starmerannounced a grave investment in wind energy in April during the organization of the International Summit Energy Safety. Nova Scotia plans to offer a lease agreement for five wind energy gigawatts at sea until 2030, said Tim Houston in Nova Scotland in Virginia last week at the Ocean Service conference.