Wind turbines with the wind project Constellation Energy in Backbone Mountain in Oakland, Maryland, on August 22, 2022. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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The general democratic prosecutors of 17 states and the Columbia district have filed a lawsuit in the Boston Federal Court to try to block President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend the permits and the lease of new energy projects.
The plaintiffs say that illegal action threatens the wind industry, an important source of clean energy.
“This administration is devastating one of the clean, reliable and affordable energy sources of our nations of our nation,” said New York Attorney Letitia James, as reported by New York Times.
James said the measure threatened with “the loss of thousands of well -paid jobs and billions of investments” and was “delaying our transition far from fossil fuels that damage our health and our planet.”
The Trump administration first arrested the federal wind energy permits in an executive order signed on January 20, which ordered the agencies to stop issuing permits for wind farms until a federal review could be carried out.
The order also instructed the Administration to stop issuing loans and leins for wind projects on the high seas and on land, Reuters reported.
The demand establishes that, when complying with the order, federal agencies caused large investments that had already put the leg at risk.
The plaintiffs are looking for a court order to declare the indefinite orlable pause while prohibiting agencies such as the departments of the United States of the Interior and the trade, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, to carry out the Trump Directive.
“The wind directive has stopped the majority of dry wind development, despite the fact that wind energy is a reliable and affordable source of energy that supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, creates billions of dollars in economic and fiscal and fiscal and fiscal and fiscal and fiscal and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax and tax states.
In their complaints, the plaintiffs argue that “it stops categorical and indefinite in federal wind energy approvals damages the efforts of the states to ensure reliable, diversified and affordable energy sources to meet the increasing demand for electricity.”
Trump has repeatedly tried to increase the production of fossil fuels while interfering with renewable energy, particularly the wind, The Hill reported.
The president has also requested a policy in his administration “where there are no wind mills are dollars.”
“The wind energy industry, like many other capital intensive industries in capital and beyond the energy sector, operates in a tremendously complex logistical and regulatory environment, where even minor setbacks can even dramatic even Dergy Eyily, according to costs. The actions of the agency’s defendant implement it create an existential threat to the wind industry,” said the complaint.
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