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Sydney Weiser, Deputy Communications Director
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, along with a coalition of 7 other attorneys general, has filed two notices of intent to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) over its unlawful settlements with Bluepoint Wind, LLC (Bluepoint) and Invenergy Wind Offshore LLC and Invenergy NE Offshore Wind LLC (together, Invenergy) and resulting cancellation of both projects’ major offshore wind leases that would have supplied power to Massachusetts.
The notices of intent to sue, which are required under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), formally notify the federal government of the coalition’s intent to file a lawsuit in 60 days.
In April 2026, more than four years after Bluepoint was awarded a $765 million lease for an offshore wind project off the cost of New York, DOI announced a settlement agreement with Bluepoint under which Bluepoint would cancel its lease in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds. The settlement agreement also requires Bluepoint to invest those funds in oil and gas projects and forego development of new offshore wind projects in the United States.
In June 2026, DOI announced another settlement agreement, consisting of nearly identical terms, with Invenergy, which was previously awarded leases totaling more than $653 million for offshore wind projects off the coast of New York and Maine.
Together, the Bluepoint and Invenergy offshore wind projects would have supplied enough electricity to power 3 million homes in New York, New Jersey, and New England.
DOI claimed that new national security concerns justified the cancellations, even though the federal government had already reviewed and approved the lease area after years of analysis and consultation with the Department of Defense.
AG Campbell and the coalition assert that the cancellation of these projects will harm Massachusetts’s economy, energy grid, and public health and welfare. In New England, the cancellation of these leases would deprive the region of important reliability, affordability, green energy, climate, and pollution-reduction benefits. For example, when New England cannot meet its electricity demand during cold winter months, more expensive and more polluting generators, including oil and gas burning facilities, are brought online to produce electricity. Offshore wind generation can reduce the need for these high-cost, high-emission electricity generators, especially in winter months, and the cancellation of these leases will deprive the region of that benefit.
The coalition argues that these settlements violate OCSLA, which limits DOI’s ability to cancel offshore wind leases. Under the law, to cancel a lease, DOI must hold a hearing and specifically find that continuing the lease would likely cause serious harm to life, property, national security, or the environment, and further determine that the benefits of cancellation outweigh the benefits of allowing the lease to continue. DOI did none of these things before cancelling the Bluepoint and Invenergy leases.
These notices of intent are the latest actions taken by AG Campbell to prevent the federal government from entering into illegal settlement agreements that cancel critical wind energy projects. In June 2026, AG Campbell filed a lawsuit against DOI for entering into a similar settlement agreement with TotalEnergies that resulted in the cancellation of the company’s major offshore wind project off the coast of New York.
Joining AG Campbell in sending the notices of intent were the attorneys general of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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