<p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">French company TotalEnergies is </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">getting a billion dollars,</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">essentially a refund of its leases for</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">offshore wind projects </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">off New York and North Carolina</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">if it invest<span style="color: #ee2323;">s</span> the money in </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">fossil fuel projects instead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">State attorneys general from Conneticut, Maine,</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">joined New York in challenging the cancellation of the lease </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">off of New York,</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">the large<span style="color: #ee2323;">r</span> of the 2 projects</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16"><s>in</s> <span style="color: #ee2323;">and</span> the bulk of the payout.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">The complaint filed Tuesday </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">names Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, among others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">He says TotalEnergies was simply refunded their money</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">which they have already invested in </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">other energy projects in the US.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR';" data-ke-size="size16">Julie Walker, New York.</span></p><p> </p>
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