States file new lawsuits against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind
An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the government spending billions of dollars to block wind projects. Attorneys general from eight East Coast states are suing the feds over the buyouts of two offshore wind leases, under […]
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