Eighteen states complained on Monday the Trump administration due to the stopping of permits for wind energy projects, with the argument that its actions were an existential threat to the fast-growing industry.
“This administration is devastating one of the fastest growing sources of our nation of clean, reliable and affordable energy,” said Attorney General Letitia James of New York, one of the claimants. She said that De Halt “threatened the loss of thousands of well -paid jobs and billions in investments and” postponed our transition from the fossil fuels that harm our health and our planet. “
The termination of the federal permits for wind energy was first constructed in an executive order of 20 January, one of a barrage that President Trump immediately signed in his decability. It gave agencies to Stop all permits for wind farms Awaiting the federal assessment.
The lawsuit Says that federal agencies have made large investments through compliance that have already been endangered. The order also instructed the attorney general of the United States and the Minister of the Interior to explore or change existing lease contracts in wind farms “, which increases the uncertainty for companies.
The wind industry offers approximately 10 percent of the country’s electricity and has many new projects in development, especially in the Great Plains and the Atlantic Ocean.
Last month, the Trump administration stopped a large wind farm Under construction off the coast of Long Island, the Empire Wind Project. It is designed to offer sufficient electricity to provide half a million houses with electricity. It had already received the permits it needed, but the Minister of the Interior Doug Burgum suggested that the analysis of the BIDEN administration during the approval process was insufficient and insufficient.
Mrs. James noted that Mr. Trump had also explained an energy ram of energy. Energy experts have mentioned that explanation exaggerated. Nevertheless, she said, the moratorium on wind permits is the opportunity to offer a new energy source.
New York also has a new law on the books that requires the amount of electricity from renewable sources to drastically increase. Achieving that goal will become more complicated without wind sources.
The lawsuit mentions numerous federal officials and agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior. The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Taylor Rogers, a spokeswoman for the White House, accused the Democratic Procurators General who had sued an indictment of the use of “Lawfare” to thwart the president’s energy agenda. “Americans in blue states should not afford the price of the radical climate agenda of the Democrats,” she said.
The Ministry of the Interior said in a statement that it was committed to “supervising public countries and waters for all Americans, while prioritizing tax responsibility for the American people.”
The lawsuit, submitted to the Federal Court in Massachusetts, asks a judge to prevent federal agencies from taking some action to block the development of wind energy and to explain the executive order illegally.
“The guideline of the Trump government to stop the development of offshore wind energy is illegal,” said Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California.
His office said that the federal policy would “derail the transition from clean energy” and would lead to higher costs for Americans. In addition to Onshore windplaces, the state has five federal offshore wind rental contracts, the office said. Offshore operations are more complicated and more expensive to operate.
Clearview Energy Partners, a consultancy in Washington, said it expected that the lawsuit would face a “uphill climb” in convincing the court to block the executive order. The “best scenario” of the company for the offshore wind industry is that facilities that are already active or are far in development can continue without opposition from the Trump administration, it said.
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