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Responsible Offshore Development Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Massachusetts
Year
2022
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior

About this case

Filing year
2022
Status
Defendants' and Vineyard Wind's motions for summary judgment granted and plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment denied.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Massachusetts
Docket number
1:22-cv-11172
Court/admin entity
United States → United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (D. Mass.)United States → United States Federal Courts
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Clean Water Act (US)Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Endangered Species Act and Other Wildlife Protection Statutes (US)Federal Statutory Claims (US) → NEPA (US)Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Other Statutes and Regulations (US)
Principal law
United States → Clean Water Act (CWA)United States → Endangered Species Act (ESA)United States → Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)United States → Merchant Marine Act of 1920/Jones ActUnited States → National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)United States → Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
At issue
Challenge to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Documents

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10/12/2023
Defendants' and Vineyard Wind's motions for summary judgment granted and plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment denied.
The federal district court for the District of Massachusetts rejected challenges to federal agencies’ and officials’ actions in connection with the approval of a wind energy project off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. With respect to the National Environmental Policy Act claims—including failure to consider climate change impacts—of an alliance representing commercial fishing interests, the court found that the alliance did not have statutory standing because it asserted only economic injuries.
Decision
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Summary

Challenge to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance