{"id":355005,"date":"2026-09-23T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355005\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:20:08","slug":"new-york-california-ramp-up-fight-against-trumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355005\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, California ramp up fight against Trump\u2019s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The enormous blades and hubs of offshore wind turbines are sprawled across a\u00a0waterfront lot in Brooklyn, as a\u00a0yellow lifting crane named Big Benny looms overhead. The energy firm Equinor is storing components here before shipping them out to Empire Wind<\/a>, a\u00a0810-megawatt installation that is set to start producing clean electricity next\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

The project will be the third of its kind to spin off the coast of New York, joining \u00d8rsted\u2019s completed South Fork Wind and its in-progress Sunrise Wind. What comes after that remains unclear.<\/p>\n

The state was expecting to develop gigawatts of offshore wind to help alleviate the region\u2019s stressed-out grid and bring down rising energy costs. But four proposed New York\u2013area wind farms have vanished from the pipeline, after the Trump administration paid developers to abandon their federal wind leases earlier this year. Companies have similarly walked away from projects off the coasts of California, the Carolinas, Louisiana, and\u00a0Maine.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, while Climate Week NYC was in full swing, New York and seven other eastern states announced they were suing to block<\/a> two agreements between developers and the U.S. Department of Interior, while California filed<\/a> its own lawsuit. The states have previously sued the Trump administration over similar lease cancellations, which they say are illegal maneuvers involving nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur job is to hold this administration accountable and not let it get in the way of our climate action progress by breaking the law,\u201d California Attorney General Rob Bonta said during an event held at the New York City Bar\u2019s office in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The New York\u2013led coalition is suing to stop Interior\u2019s agreement with Bluepoint Wind, a\u00a0joint venture of Ocean Winds and Global Infrastructure Partners. In 2022, during a\u00a0record-setting auction, Ocean Winds bid $765 million for a\u00a0lease area, where it planned to build a\u00a02.4-gigawatt project near New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Last April, the Trump administration said<\/a> it would reimburse the full payment and cancel the lease. In exchange, Global Infrastructure Partners agreed to invest the same amount into a\u00a0U.S. liquefied natural gas facility. All the other lease-buyout deals involve some kind of commitment to reinvest the funds in fossil fuels and other energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The second New York\u2013led lawsuit targets Interior\u2019s deals with Invenergy<\/a>. This summer, the agency paid the Chicago-based developer $653 million and canceled its leases for areas near New York and New Jersey, as well as Maine. Interior also paid Invenergy $111 million to abandon its lease near California\u2019s Central Coast \u2014 an agreement that California is now challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The enormous blades and hubs of offshore wind turbines are sprawled across a\u00a0waterfront lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-355005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}