Washington Examiner
· collected 2026-09-22 · by Callie Patteson and Maydeen Merino
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY:
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Today also marks a very special day: the official start of Fat Bear Week.
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If you’ve been reading Daily on Energy the last couple years, you’ll know this is a favorite week for Callie and Maydeen, when the chonkiest bears go head-to-head for the heavyweight crown.
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Over the next seven days you’ll be able to cast your vote for fattest bear of the year.
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We’re kicking off today’s newsletter with news on the latest pushback against the Trump administration’s cancellation of offshore wind leases, as California has filed a lawsuit against the administration and energy developer Invenergy.
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Plus, if you missed President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations earlier today, we have some of his most notable remarks below, including the president’s push to economically isolate Iran.
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CALIFORNIA SUES OVER OFFSHORE WIND CANCELLATION:
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The Trump administration’s creative, and so far successful, tactic of using buyouts to stop offshore wind farms from being built is facing another state-led lawsuit.
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The state of California said today that it had filed a suit against the Trump administration over a deal struck with developer Invenergy earlier this summer to cancel an offshore wind project off its coastline, in exchange for millions of dollars and a promise to invest in fossil fuels elsewhere.
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In June, Interior announced that it struck a settlement agreement with affiliates of Invenergy to terminate four offshore wind leases in the New York Bight, the Central Coast of California, and the Gulf of Maine.
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For the California project, Invenergy paid over $111 million to purchase the offshore lease in 2022, with the intention of developing up to two gigawatts of wind power capacity.
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Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission filed the suit, calling the deal an “unlawful buyout.”
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They have also named Invenergy as a defendant.
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The Trump administration has defended this deal, and several others, as settlement agreements.
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However, California has called this characterization a “sham” to “bypass the rules that Congress set down for the offshore energy leasing program,” including stakeholder rights as well as a cap on how much the government can pay developers when canceling a lease.
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The state also argues that it cannot be described as a settlement, as it was not resolving an existing lawsuit.
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The suit claims the deal violates numerous laws, including the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Judgment Fund Act.
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The California lawsuit is separate from the suit filed by a coalition of seven other states against the Trump administration for similar agreements made to cancel the leases for future offshore wind farms.
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TRUMP CALLS FOR COMPLETE ECONOMIC ISOLATION OF IRAN:
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This morning at the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump called on allies to help enforce a complete economic isolation of Iran.
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Much of the president’s remarks were focused on the war in the Middle East.
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Trump said that he has “a big decision to make,” hinting at two possible paths for Iran.
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Trump said that a deal could be reached that would allow Iran to recover economically and rebuild.
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But without a deal, he said, he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic.”
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The president said that another deal could be reached after the November midterm elections, claiming that Iran is watching to see the outcomes.
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Once a deal is made, Trump said, oil prices will plummet.
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Oil prices have dipped under $100 per barrel since yesterday.
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Prices did rise a bit following the president’s speech, but remain under $100 a barrel.
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As of this afternoon, West Texas Intermediate is at $91.28 a barrel, while Brent crude is sitting at $99.97 per barrel.
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The president also took a moment to tout his administration’s success in delaying a vote on a carbon tax on the international shipping industry.
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“Last year my administration was forced to intervene to stop an obscure UN body, the International Maritime Organization, from secretly establishing a first-ever global carbon tax …
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There is no global government and while I am President, there will be no global taxes,” the president said.
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If you forgot, last October, the Trump administration successfully blocked the International Maritime Organization from formally voting to adopt the tax, also known as the net-zero framework.
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The levy had already been approved in April of last year and all that was needed was a formal vote to adopt the proposal in order for it to go into effect in 2028.
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The U.S. delayed the vote by one year and has since upped pressure on the IMO to scrap the proposal entirely.
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TRUMP CALLS FOR DIESEL EXPORT BAN:
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Trump said that he has called for a diesel export ban as his administration is weighing its options.
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“I’ve called for that too.
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…and 47 more, not listed.
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