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The lawsuit calls the deal a “sham settlement agreement to unlawfully cancel an offshore wind lease and redirect the money paid for the lease to a separate, unauthorized use favored by the President.”

Published June 3, 2026

Offshore wind turbines. A lawsuit from seven states, led by New York, asserts that the cancellation of both the Attentive Energy and Bluepoint Wind projects offshore the state would reduce available energy production in the New York Bight by 28%.

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