Wind turbines from South Fork Wind can be seen on October 9, 2024 off the coast of Block Island, RI.
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A coalition of the Attorney General submitted against President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the development of wind energy on Monday.
The Attorney General from 17 states and Washington, DC, request an executive order that signed Trump during his first day of office during the break of permits, permits and loans for all wind energy projects both onshore and offshore. They say that Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally conclude the permissible process, and he endangers the development of a power source that decides on the economic vitality, energy mixture, public health and climate goals of the states.
They ask a federal judge to illegally declare the order and prevent the federal authorities from implementing them.
“This arbitrary and unnecessary guideline threatens the loss of well -paid jobs and billions of investments and delays our transition from fossil fuels that damage our health and planet,” said the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, who heads the coalition.
The spokesman for the White House, Taylor Rogers, said that the Democratic Attorney General “uses legal guidance in order to stop the president’s popular energy agenda” instead of working with him in order to reduce American energy and lower prices for families.
“The American people voted for the president to restore America’s energy dominance, and the Americans in Blue States should not have to pay the price of the radical climatic agenda of the Democrats,” Rogers told Associated Press.
During the campaign, Trump swore to end the offshore wind industry when he returned to the White House. According to his command, there were “alleged legal defects on which the leasing and approval of wind projects of the Federal Government are based”, and instructed the interior minister to check wind leasing and permission of practices for waters and the country of the federal government.
The lawsuit was submitted to the Federal Supreme Court in Massachusetts.
Trump’s command aimed at a priority of bidens climate plan
The bidet administration was looking for offshore wind as a climate wall solution, set national goals, held rental sales and approved almost a dozen projects for commercial measures. Trump reverses this energy policy. It increases fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal that cause climate change and argues that it is necessary for the USA to have the lowest energy and electricity in the world.
The Trump government took a more aggressive step against wind in April when it ordered the Norwegian company Equinor to stop building on Empire Wind, a fully approved project southeast of Long Island, New York. Interior Minister Doug Burgum said it seemed that the bidding administration had overthrown approval.
Equinor went through a seven -year approval process before starting the Empire Wind last year to supply 500,000 New York houses with electricity. Equinor checks legal options that would be submitted by Mondays. The Norwegian government has a majority stake in Equinor.
Wind delivers about 10% of the electricity generated in the United States and is therefore the largest source of renewable energies in the country. The Attorney General argues that Trump’s command contradictions in years of cross -party support for wind energy and contradicts his own explanation of a “national energy emergency”, which required the expansion of indoor energy production.
States have already invested large sums to develop wind 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.
The New York governor Kathy Hochul said that the executive order saw the chaos when companies need clear regulations to work effectively.
Large wind farms in the sea are the linchpin of state plans to shift to renewable energies, especially in populated states of the east coast with a limited country. The nation’s first offshore wind park was opened a year ago, a 12-turbine wind farm east of Montauk Point, New York. A smaller wind farm near Block Island in waters that are controlled by the state of Rhode Iceland.
Massachusetts has invested in offshore wind to ensure that residents have access to well-paid green workplaces and reliable, affordable energy, said Attorney General of Massachusetts, Attorney General Andrea Campbell. The state has three offshore wind projects in various stages of development, including Vineyard Wind. The Supreme Court of the United States refused on Monday to hear a case of fishermen organizations that question the approval of Weinbergwind.
The Trump government also hired the federal financing for floating offshore wind research in Maine in Maine and revoked an approval for an proposed offshore wind project in New Jersey.
Elsewhere, political leaders are trying to quickly increase the Windergie. The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer announced a major investment in wind power in April while organizing an international summit on energy insurance. Nova Scotia plans to offer rental contracts for five gigawatts from offshore energy energy by 2030, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said last week in a conference for Oceanic Network.