[News] The Government Could Not Stop These Wind Farms by Order. So It Bought the Leases Back for $1.22 Billion.
The Interior Department is paying the German utility RWE $1.22 billion to give up three offshore wind leases, the fifth such deal of 2026 and part of roughly $3.9 billion in payments made after federal courts struck down every stop-work order the administration had issued.
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