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The lease cancellations “are causing ongoing harm” to California, which has “invested more than $100 million to support the development of wind energy,” the state’s attorney general said.

Published June 25, 2026

About a dozen white wind turbines stand in the ocean as waves crash around their bases. California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a June 23, 2026, statement said the Trump administration's offshore wind lease buyouts “will harm the state’s clean energy and climate goals and economy."