A federal judge in Massachusetts said Wednesday he plans to deny a motion by the Donald Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit over its blocking of wind energy projects, siding with a coalition of state attorneys general.

Led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C. are suing in federal court to challenge President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order halting leasing and permitting for wind energy projects.

Judge William G. Young said during a hearing that he plans to allow the case to proceed against Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, but will dismiss the action against Trump and cabinet secretaries other than Burgum named as defendants.

He said he thinks states do have standing to sue, which the federal government had argued against. The states can proceed with claims that blocking permits for wind energy projects violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which outlines a detailed process for enacting regulations, but not the Constitution, Young said.

Young said his rulings from the bench were tentative and reserved the right to alter them in writing his formal opinion.

As he set the schedule for future hearings, he said he has had a problem since the beginning of the case — if the plaintiffs win, he said, what can be done? Inevitably, licenses can be withheld so long as there is appropriate, logical support for such action, Young said.

Young said it looks like the president has “bet the country’s energy future on fossil fuels. It’s not for this court to question that.”

The coalition of attorneys general want the administration to resume considering the permits and ultimately issue a decision one way or the other under applicable laws and well-established standards and timelines, said Turner Smith, from the Massachusetts attorney general’s office.

The coalition sued to ask that a judge declare the executive order unlawful and approve an injunction to stop federal agencies from implementing it. They argued that Trump doesn’t have the authority to halt project permitting and doing so jeopardizes the states’ economies, energy mix, public health and climate goals.

The government is arguing that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the bounds of the federal court’s jurisdiction. Department of Justice Attorney Michael Robertson said in court that the wind order paused permitting, but didn’t halt it, while the Interior secretary reviews the environmental impact and that this effort is underway. He said he did not know how long the process would take, but that states have not shown that they were harmed by a specific permit not being issued.

Wind is the U.S.’ largest source of renewable energy, providing about 10% of the electricity generated in the nation, according to the American Clean Power Association.

Trump prioritizes fossil fuels and said last week that his administration would not approve wind energy projects except in cases of emergency.