While Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond joined 23 other Republican AGs in suing Vermont over its Climate Act, 18 Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the administration’s “categorical and indefinite” pause on approvals for new wind energy projects.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez was among those who argued President Trump’s wind freeze order exceeds his authority. Their challenge contends the President issued the order without a “reasonable explanation” and did so in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
“The Wind Directive has stopped most wind-energy development in its tracks, despite the fact that wind energy is a homegrown source of reliable, affordable energy that supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, creates billions of dollars in economic activity and tax payments, and supplies more than 10% of the country’s electricity,” argued Torrez and the other attorneys general.
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