New York sues Interior Department over $1B payment to oil company to block wind farm development
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Jameson Dow
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Summary
New York state is suing the U.S. Interior Department over an alleged $1 billion payment made to an oil company to halt development of a wind farm off the New York coast. The lawsuit claims the payment was illegal and that the wind project would have saved New Yorkers $10 billion and created 1,700 jobs. The article frames the Interior Department's actions as deliberately raising energy costs and favoring fossil fuels over cheaper, cleaner wind energy.
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The project would have saved New Yorkers $10 billion and created 1,700 jobs, which would have conflicted with the Department of the Interior's goals of raising your energy costs.
Wind is one of the cheaper forms of energy we have available to us, and also has the benefit of not causing pollution.
Pollution from fossil fuels harms human health, causing millions of deaths and childhood asthma cases
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