On the last time on the Imperial Wind Project near the New York-New Jersey Coast, the Trump administration still ordered its construction to be stopped immediately after get off work, despite the presidential executive order still on the monster. [emphasis, links added]
Recently, several civic groups and companies opposed to the project [Save Long Beach Island, Inc. (Save LBI), Save the East Coast, Protect Our Coast Long Island-New York, and the Miss Belmar whale watching company] filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey.
The lawsuit challenges federal approval to award the Imperial Wind Off-Road Wind Project, located in the Long branch of New Jersey and Long Beach, New York.
These groups claim that U.S. government agencies violate environmental laws by approving the empire’s wind projects without proper protection of marine mammals or adequate study of environmental impacts.
The main problem is that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) approved to disturb or harm thousands of marine mammals during the project through the so-called accidental authorization (ITA).
This includes more than 30% of specific dolphin populations each year, a lawsuit says that this is far more than what the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) allows.
The plaintiff believes that this harm is both illegal and dangerous.
Authorization is authorized to authorize nearly one-third of the protected dolphin population within one year, and during the 5-year period of the project, the majority of the population is not only illegal, but ecologically reckless. Stern.
The plaintiff also claimed that Boem's environmental impact statement on Empire Wind violated NEPA, failed to consider meaningful project alternatives, underestimated the environmental hazards of the project while failing to fully account for the cumulative impact of other offshore wind projects….
…The lawsuit requires the court to revoke the ITA, decision records, and construction and operational plans for the project and require agencies to fully comply with the law.
Dr. Stern also noted that “the lawsuit is related to recent lawsuits filed by 17 countries, claiming that there is no legal basis to block the Empire Wind 1 project because it provides substantial legal reasons for the endangered North Atlantic right whale migration.
The Empire Wind 1 project is located in the proposed corridor, so the lawsuit will make the corridor feasible while the agency reviews the petition. ”
As Stern notes, attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C. has filed lawsuits against Donald Trump and his administration, challenging paused green energy projects, including offshore wind farms.
Ridiculously, Letitia James led the charge.
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