New Jersey is joining a coalition of 16 other states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to ensure offshore wind projects continue.

The lawsuit challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order, which blocked offshore wind development in federal waters. The suit claims that the president’s freeze on wind energy products will further impede the development of wind energy in New Jersey. It was filed by 18 Democratic attorney generals, including New Jersey Attorney General Matt Plakin.

Platkin said he was disappointed in Trump’s order.

"While the Trump Administration prioritizes the profits of oil and gas companies, we are standing up for working families, for our environment, and for the jobs being killed by this unlawful action,” Platkin wrote in part.

The lawsuit seeks to have a federal judge declare Trump’s order unlawful and to stop federal agencies from implementing it.

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Democratic attorneys general are “using lawfare to stop the president’s popular energy agenda,” instead of working with him to unleash American energy and lower prices for families.

“The American people voted for the president to restore America’s energy dominance, and Americans in blue states should not have to pay the price of the Democrats’ radical climate agenda,” Rogers said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Trump vowed during the campaign to end the offshore wind industry if he returned to the White House. His order said there were “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the federal government’s leasing and permitting” of wind projects, and it directed the Interior secretary to review wind leasing and permitting practices for federal waters and lands.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Massachusetts.