The Environment
California delivers the message to Trunt that everyone in the world should as well: Fuck You.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission filed a notice of intent on Tuesday, June 23, to challenge the Trump administration’s deal to cancel a California offshore wind lease in exchange for investments in fossil fuel energy projects. The state contends the effort puts at risk its energy policy and more than $100 million in investments in an unlawful agreement that violates the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
The Trump administration’s latest step to end offshore wind energy has focused on a series of deals that it says reimburse the bidders for the money spent on leases in exchange for reinvestment in other energy projects. The first deal was struck for nearly $1 billion with TotalEnergies, followed by a second that canceled California’s Golden State Wind (GWS) and another project in the New York Bight, and a third deal which cancels projects in the New York Bight, the central coast of California, and the Gulf of Maine. All told, the administration has promised nearly $2.6 billion of reimbursements. Read on.
