On Tuesday, seven Democratic-led states, including New York, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit challenges a controversial agreement made in March between the administration and French energy company TotalEnergies, which involved a payment of $928 million to abandon plans for a wind farm off the coast of New York and another off North Carolina. New York Attorney General Letitia James stated that this deal violates at least two federal laws and poses a significant threat to the state's economy and power grid. She criticized the agreement as a 'sham deal' that diverts taxpayer money to a foreign company while jeopardizing over a thousand union jobs and depriving millions of New Yorkers of clean, affordable energy. The lawsuit has garnered support from the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont, all of whom argue that their states would benefit from the electricity generated by the proposed wind projects. As of now, representatives from the Justice Department and the White House have not commented on the lawsuit.