Seven states are legally challenging the Trump administration’s controversial cancellation of offshore wind projects worth nearly $1 billion.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont are suing the Trump administration. Led by New York, the states are claiming that the cancellation of an offshore wind project off the coast of New York was unlawful and unjustified, and are asking the court to vacate the deal that allowed its cancellation.

French energy giant TotalEnergies paid the Biden administration $928 million in 2022 for a lease to build two offshore wind farms, one off the coast of New York and the other off North Carolina.…