SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 16 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:
OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission (CEC) Chair David Hochschild today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue targeting an unlawful agreement between the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and Invenergy, that would thwart California's offshore wind energy development. Under the agreement announced on June 17, 2026, DOI will unlawfully reallocate more than $111 million in federal taxpayer dollars to pay an Invenergy subsidiary to abandon its offshore wind energy lease in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area off the Central California coast (Lease OCS-P 0565), and the company is required to make an equivalent inves...