ABC News by Julia Jacobo
Seven states are suing the Trump administration over a nearly $1 billion deal to end French energy company TotalEnergies’ offshore wind development off the East Coast, accusing the deal of being “unlawful.”
In March, the U.S. Department of the Interior reached a $928 million deal with TotalEnergies to halt construction of the wind farms and redirect the investment into domestic fossil fuel initiatives. The “landmark agreement” was described by the Interior Department as a way to lower energy costs and strengthen the nation’s energy security.
Attorneys general in seven states in the Northeast, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, alleging the Trump administration illegally used nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for the deal.
The coalition also accuses the deal of violating the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which restricts the Interior Department’s ability to cancel offshore wind leases.
“The Trump administration is once again trying to kill clean energy projects and destroy good-paying jobs for New Yorkers,” New York Attorney General Leticia James, who is leading the coalition, said in a statement.
The filing requests that a court strike down the agreement.
Named in the lawsuit are the U.S. Department of the Interior and Sec. Doug Burgum; the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Acting Director Matthew Giocona; and the U.S. Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
TotalEnergies’ leases would have allowed the developer to construct massive offshore wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina.
About 10% of electricity generated in the U.S. comes from wind power, according to the Department of Energy. There are currently more than 75,000 wind turbines in the U.S., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
But the federal government has more authority to regulate offshore than onshore wind projects, since offshore wind is installed in federal waters, Michelle Solomon, senior policy analyst at Energy Innovation, a non-partisan research and analysis nonprofit that supports clean energy, told ABC News in March after the news of the TotalEnergies deal broke.
In a statement to ABC News, a spokesperson for the Department of the Interior said, “The only thing blatantly unlawful here was the process by which these offshore wind leases were negotiated and imposed under the Biden administration.”
“Billions of dollars were effectively taken from the pockets of hardworking taxpayers and funneled into energy projects that were not only unreliable, but also unaffordable,” the spokesperson said.
The Interior Department reiterated that there were “serious” national security risks that demanded immediate attention, “which critics conveniently ignore.”
“These settlements were reviewed and approved by the Department of Justice, underscoring that they went through the appropriate channels,” the spokesperson said. “Attempts to rewrite history now cannot erase the reality of these projects and the damage they could cause. This administration will not sit back and let reckless projects create higher utility costs, a weakened energy system, and unnecessary harm to the environment.”
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The Climate CO2 Hoax and the Flaws of Green Energy.
Global Research.
5 September 2025.
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The conclusions of the Climate Intelligence foundation include the following:
“There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming… Warming is far slower than predicted… Climate policy relies on inadequate models…
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth: CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing.
More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.”
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, and President of Greenpeace in Canada for seven years, states:
“the whole climate crisis is not only fake news its fake science… of course climate change is real it’s been happening since the beginning of time, but it’s not dangerous and it’s not caused by people…
Most of the scientists who are saying it’s a crisis are on perpetual government grants…
you don’t have a plan to feed 8 billion people without fossils fuels or get the food into the cities…” – Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-co2-hoax-flaws-green-energy/5899585
Last year Trump went to the UN and the WEF and called out the Climate Hoax, and now we have the scientists body in the CN article a few days ago, surrendering to reality, however the fake news is pushing hard with their celebs Antonio “Earth Is Boiling” Guterres, and anyone else willing, to keep push selling the CO2 nonsense, they have been going hard lately, and also war criminal Tedros chirping in about his injections and what have you. Trump is playing to the conservatives and he owes the progressives nothing, they didn’t vote for him. So society is fractured along another line. The irony is the progressives are probably more wise to the scamdemic than the conservatives, but once you are hostage to ClimateChange™ or Rockerfellas MedicalSystem™ it’s hard to admit you were wrong, so we have about 20% at each extreme yapping at each other about fictions. We really need both sides of the deluded to be woken up to the fact we, here, now, in Australia, are being scammed by UN of Swissyland. Nobody should send them money, they are always running begging ads on SBS-TV with their UNICEF and other scams, famous for the pedos in Africa, they run ads with starving bears they get from somewhere, if you pay them they will get more starving bears, if you pay them for the starving Africans they will get more starving Africans, to meet demand. These people are pure evil, Gutteres, Tedros, Gates etc have no place in our governance but there they are at the top of the tree, with their stinking UN treaties enforceable by “emergency legislation”. Now we are hog-tied into Globalism and all our factories have been shut down by complicit governments, people like Abbott who shut Holden and Toyota hybrid down. We are going to cop the data centres and virtual prison next while the labour will be imported from cheaper places. Already they have an iron ore competitor in Guinea, called Simandou, run by the CCP and Rio Tinto. What we need is a political centrist position with these extreme “progressives” and extreme “conservatives” who have been hoodwinked by Swissy’s scams, we need the extremists to be marginalised until they finally realise what’s going on, then maybe we can start to rebuild this country, instead of simply building data centres and infrastructure for NDIS and Unions to pillage.
Increasing Number Of Cities Are Banning Meat And Oil Advertising | Principia Scientific, Intl. 2 June 2026.
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May 1st, Amsterdam became the world’s first capital to outlaw public ads for both meat and products made from ‘fossil fuels’
City officials scrubbed billboards, tram stops, and metro stations of promotions for gasoline cars, airlines, cruises, and distant vacations, along with beef, chicken, pork, and fish.
In place of the now-illegal ads are posters for the Rijksmuseum and piano concerts, which apparently are included in the city’s vision of a ‘carbon’-neutral metropolis that consumes half as much meat.
Driving the ad ban through the city council were two political parties, GreenLeft and Party for the Animals.
Their claim of fighting impulse buying that locks in “high-carbon” habits poorly disguises an abuse of political power that denies people reasonable everyday choices in exchange for nothing benefiting the environment.
Advertising bans serve only to boost a feeling of moral superiority among urban elites while achieving nothing and jeopardizing much. They represent an anti-human stance and a dangerous embrace of unscientific dogma.
And the so-called environmentalists stand silent while people are intending to make cows, sheep, chickens and pigs extinct.
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https://principia-scientific.com/increasing-number-of-cities-are-banning-meat-and-oil-advertising/
DJT’s certainly a fast moving tornado. He’s tearing up the globalist empire like a human hurricane.
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Like any military offensive, you must never stop for rest. Destroy the enemy in front of you, then push on. Tear massive holes in their front, then attack the enemy in the rear, the deeper the better. Never let the enemy regroup. Leave the mopping up to the second line of advance.
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Attack them where they are least expecting, distract them over there, but attack them over here, when they deploy here, you’ve already moved on to the next unsuspecting target.
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Like the early days of WWII, the allied military had ossified into a static front warfare mentality. Whilst on the contrary, the Germans chose to scale up their highly successful WWI Sturmtruppe tactics to divisional, corps and army group levels. This was mobile front warfare. The allies didn’t know what hit them. They called it Blitzkrieg.
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Although the combat circumstances are different, the Trump administration have been applying mobile front warfare in a less military way, but the effects are the same: enemy chaos, panic, disorganisation and disintegration.
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