New York Attorney General Letitia James and 17 other blue-state attorneys general, as well as the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit Friday in an attempt to block cuts made by the Department of Energy they claim threaten their state’s energy programs.

Filed in U.S. District Court for Oregon, the complaint targets the department’s policy change that limits reimbursement that states can use toward administrative and staffing costs. The attorneys general and governors are framing it as cuts against consumers.

“Cutting these programs would pull the rug out from efforts to save New Yorkers money on their bills, prepare homes for extreme weather, and move toward clean, affordable energy,” James said in a post on X.

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