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Sticking with Trump's energy policies, a group of nine US states have launched a new round of lawsuits against the president's policy of paying offshore wind developers to give up their project leases in exchange for large payoffs.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont filed two lawsuits against decisions involving energy companies Bluepoint and Invenergy, and payoffs totaling $1.4 billion.

California, meanwhile, filed its own lawsuit against the decision also involving Invenergy and the cancellation of a floating offshore wind project on the West Coast that resulted in a payoff of more than $110 million.

The lawsuits say that federal funds were used unlawfully to broker the deals, and they're calling on the courts to void the cancellation of the leases and prevent further implementation of those agreements.

California's lawsuit even claims that the deals are unconstitutional.

Several states sued the Trump administration over offshore wind deals.

In two lawsuits, a coalition of eight states argues the administration's deals with Invenergy and Bluepoint Wind, in which the government agreed to refund the companies some $1.4 billion in exchange for scuttling offshore wind farms, are a misuse of taxpayer funds.

California filed a separate lawsuit over a $111 million deal.

Since March, the Trump administration has agreed to pay some $4 billion from the taxpayer-supported Judgment Fund to cancel a dozen offshore wind farms.

And with concern about those energy costs, a renewed push for an alternative source: wind.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he's suing over the removal of an offshore project planned by Chicago-based Invenergy.

Meantime, New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading seven states in lawsuits involving the Invenergy project and another proposal with BluePoint Wind.

BluePoint agreed in April to end a wind farm under development off the New York and New Jersey coast.

James calls the deals, under which energy companies would receive one point four billion in taxpayer dollars, illegal.

The Organization of MISO States will not conduct its annual survey quantifying distributed energy resources across the MISO footprint in twenty twenty-six while it evaluates how to modernize it and, in a related effort, explores the creation of a centralized DER data exchange platform.

Invenergy seeks process to change planned resource fuel type in PJM.

The PJM planning committee endorsed an Invenergy issue charge seeking to allow resources that have received interconnection service agreements but still are under development to change their fuel type if it is determined there would be no material impact.

CPUC safety division opposes overhead line rule proposal.

The California PUC's safety division opposed a proposed decision issued that would revise how overhead power lines are designed and built in California.

Projected demand for data centers gives utilities a justification for proposing large new fossil fuel infrastructure projects rather than investing in lower cost clean energy alternatives.

Invenergy is proposing two natural gas plants in Wisconsin, totaling nearly two gigawatts, which Re-Energy plans to acquire.

Utilities say the projects are needed to maintain reliability as electricity demand grows.

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.