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Attorney General William Tong is back in court against the Trump administration, this time to block two federal deals that would cancel four planned offshore wind projects and return $1.4 billion from the Judgment Fund to the leaseholders.
Tong joined seven other attorneys general in two lawsuits announced Tuesday—one targeting a deal with Bluepoint Wind, and the other a deal with Invenergy. New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading both cases, while California is filing a separate suit over a related Invenergy lease off its coast.
In the Bluepoint deal, the Department of the Interior canceled a New York Bight lease and paid the company $765 million. Bluepoint will reinvest the money into a liquefied natural gas facility and has agreed not to pursue future offshore wind projects in the United States. In the Invenergy deal, three leases—one in the New York Bight and two in the Gulf of Maine—were canceled for $653 million. Invenergy will redirect those funds to natural gas plants in Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, as well as geothermal projects in the West.
Tong’s office states the projects would have produced enough energy to power more than four million homes. The lawsuits ask a court to declare the deals illegal, vacate them, and stop the administration from executing them. The coalition claims the agreements misuse the Judgment Fund, bypass required lease-cancellation procedures, and violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and federal spending laws.
“Again, Trump is putting corporate profits ahead of American families,” Tong said. “He is taking our tax dollars for business bribes to block offshore wind so that Big Oil can keep extracting maximum profits from old fossil fuel infrastructure.”
These were not mystery leases sprung on the companies overnight. Bluepoint and Invenergy paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the rights in competitive federal auctions. After a string of court fights over the administration’s wind policy, Interior offered them their money back from the Judgment Fund—the same account used to pay legal judgments and settlements against the United States—if they dropped the projects and steered the capital into other energy infrastructure. The companies took the deals.
Tong calls that a “bribe.”
Another way to describe it is a buyout of projects the administration does not want built and developers were willing to abandon for cash.
This is far from Tong's first lawsuit over offshore wind infrastructure. He sued in 2025 over the stop-work order on Revolution Wind, which is now operating and, according to his office, is expected to supply about 2.5 percent of the region’s electricity. In June 2026, he joined the TotalEnergies lease case, which remains pending in the District of Columbia.
Joining Tong are the AGs of Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Special Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Cheney and Deputy Associate Attorney General Matthew Levine, chief of the Environment Section, are handling the matter for Connecticut.
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