Seven states are legally challenging the Trump administration’s controversial cancellation of offshore wind projects worth nearly $1 billion. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont are suing the Trump administration. Led by New York, the states are claiming that the cancellation of an offshore wind project off the coast of New York was unlawful and unjustified, and are asking the court to vacate the deal that allowed its cancellation. French energy giant TotalEnergies paid the Biden administration $928 million in 2022 for a lease to build two offshore wind farms, one off the coast of New York and the other off North Carolina. In March 2026, four years after the lease was granted and with preparations already underway, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of both. As climate change increasingly ravages our world and a global warming-fueled, potentially catastrophic El Niño seemingly forms in the Pacific, the Trump administration has made it its mission to attack climate-friendly clean energy sources. The administration’s top target has been offshore wind.
President Trump harbors a long-held distaste for offshore wind farms, at least since he failed to block the construction of one off the coast of his golf course in Scotland simply because he did not like the view. Besides the aesthetic concerns, Administration officials have bizarrely claimed that offshore wind farms are a national security hazard. Since he took office last year, Trump has fought an at times futile legal battle to cancel projects that are already underway.
