{"id":298395,"date":"2024-01-25T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298395"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:06:47","slug":"environmental-laws-that-impeded-pipelines-for-years-could-trip-up-bidens-sprint-toward-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298395","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Laws That Impeded Pipelines For Years Could Trip Up Biden\u2019s Sprint Toward Offshore Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"298402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=298402\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1706\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/01\/22\/environmental-laws-threaten-biden-offshore-wind-lawsuit\/\">Daily Caller<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"50\" data-attachment-id=\"298396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=298396\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-419.png?fit=528%2C50&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"528,50\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-419\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-419.png?fit=528%2C50&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-419.png?resize=528%2C50&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-419.png?w=528&amp;ssl=1 528w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-419.png?resize=300%2C28&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/Nick+Pope\">NICK POPE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CONTRIBUTOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Landmark environmental laws leveraged for decades to challenge infrastructure projects are now being used against offshore wind, a key aspect of President Joe Biden\u2019s green energy agenda.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A new lawsuit brought by grassroots environmental groups, fishermen and local citizens alleges that the government did not abide by the terms of statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act in a rush to permit two massive offshore wind developments off the East Coast.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u201cDestroying ocean habitat in the name of climate change prevention is absolutely hypocritical and atrocious,\u201d Dustin Delano, the COO of the New England Fishermen\u2019s Stewardship Association (NEFSA), a plaintiff in the suit, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental rules and regulations that activists have used for years to drown disfavored infrastructure projects in litigation are now threatening a key pillar of President Joe Biden\u2019s massive climate agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coalition of grassroots environmental groups, local residents and fishermen are suing the Department of the Interior (DOI), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Army Corps of Engineers, alleging that the agencies cut corners on key environmental policies in order to hasten the buildout of massive offshore wind projects off the East Coast. Environmentalists are now using key policies like the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that have mired other infrastructure projects, including and especially natural gas pipelines, to challenge the legality of Biden administration\u2019s efforts to reach its offshore wind targets.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/01\/14\/biden-administration-ocean-justice-stakeholders-lip-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(RELATED: Commercial Fishers Say Biden Admin\u2019s \u2018Ocean Justice\u2019 Initiative Totally Ignores Their Concerns)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmentalist opponents of offshore wind posit that the construction and operation of the huge turbines disrupt marine ecosystems, including the balance of fisheries and the ability of certain whales to safely navigate the waters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared \u201cunusual mortality events\u201d for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/national\/marine-life-distress\/2016-2024-humpback-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast#:~:text=Causes%20of%20the%20Humpback%20Whale%20UME,-Partial%20or%20full&amp;text=Of%20the%20whales%20examined%20(approximately,consistent%20across%20all%20whales%20examined.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humpback<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/national\/marine-life-distress\/2017-2024-north-atlantic-right-whale-unusual-mortality-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">North Atlantic Right Whales<\/a>, starting in 2016 and 2017, respectively, a timeline which approximately aligns with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/eere\/wind\/history-us-wind-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beginning<\/a>&nbsp;of industrial-scale offshore wind development off the East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, the government maintains that there is no available scientific evidence that clearly proves a causal link between offshore wind development and the large increase in whale deaths,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/new-england-mid-atlantic\/marine-life-distress\/frequent-questions-offshore-wind-and-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to NOAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo implement a massive new program to generate electrical energy by constructing thousands of turbine towers offshore on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf and laying hundreds of miles of high-tension electrical cables undersea, the United States has shortcut the statutory and regulatory requirements that were enacted to protect our Nation\u2019s environmental and natural resources, its industries and its people,\u201d the lawsuit contends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/700695015-Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 700695015-Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3a9f448f-c1a0-4e37-8f1c-32857fcb788a\" href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/700695015-Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit.pdf\">700695015-Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/700695015-Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3a9f448f-c1a0-4e37-8f1c-32857fcb788a\">Herunterladen<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/700695015\/Offshore-Wind-Lawsuit#from_embed\">Offshore Wind Lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/679679430\/Nick-Pope#from_embed\">Nick Pope<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit takes specific aim at Revolution Wind and South Fork Wind, two massive developments off the Rhode Island coast. Plaintiffs in the suit include the New England Fishermen\u2019s Stewardship Association (NEFSA), Save the Right Whales Coalition and Green Oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration is aiming for offshore wind to generate enough electricity to meet the demand of 10 million American homes by 2030, but the subsidized industry is facing considerable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/26\/bailout-offshore-wind-looming-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">financial pressure<\/a>&nbsp;as inflation, high borrowing costs and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/06\/biden-offshore-wind-severe-logistical-infrastructure-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">logistical issues<\/a>&nbsp;are weighing on profit margins. Apart from potential legal issues that the projects may face, economic conditions are prompting developers to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/04\/offshore-wind-company-fine-contract-utility-trouble-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancel<\/a>&nbsp;power purchase agreements or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/31\/leading-offshore-wind-company-orsted-cancels-two-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terminate<\/a>&nbsp;projects altogether, putting Biden\u2019s 2030 goal firmly out of reach,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/bidens-offshore-wind-target-slipping-out-reach-projects-struggle-2023-09-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit, filed Jan. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that several of the government\u2019s environmental reviews and procedural decisions underlying its approval of the Revolution Wind and South Fork Wind projects are illegal. The plaintiffs contend that the government may \u201chave violated NEPA by impermissibly segmenting the multiple areas of the offshore wind program and ignoring the cumulative environmental impacts of thousands of turbines on millions of acres of ocean that BOEM will approve in the near future,\u201d and that \u201cBOEM violated NEPA by failing to provide complete analyses and disclose the impacts&nbsp;of the projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate activists have previously used the laws cited in this lawsuit to gum up projects they oppose, like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchrepository.wvu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&amp;context=law_faculty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>\u00a0to Jesse Richardson, a professor of law at West Virginia University, and Madison Hinkle, an environmental lawyer. The lawsuit focusing on Revolution Wind and South Fork Wind demonstrate that the Biden administration\u2019s plans for offshore wind developments \u2014 and potentially other green energy projects \u2014 are going to have to beat legal challenges predicated on NEPA, ESA and other statutes that have long been a problem for oil- and gas-related projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNEFSA and the other grassroots groups like Green Oceans have taken the \u2018bull by the horns\u2019 alongside the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance in their fierce opposition to the industrialization of our oceans from foreign offshore wind companies. Once again, we\u2019re seeing an example of fishermen, the true environmentalists of the ocean, fighting to preserve and protect it \u2014 while environmental groups remain silent or in some cases, endorse this destructive movement of ocean industrialization,\u201d Dustin Delano, NEFSA\u2019s COO, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cDestroying ocean habitat in the name of climate change prevention is absolutely hypocritical and atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Delano mentioned, numerous major eco-activism groups \u2014 including Greenpeace and the League of Conservation Voters \u2014 have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/27\/environmentalists-offshore-oil-gas-wind-whale-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended<\/a>&nbsp;offshore wind, suggesting that concerns about the technology\u2019s environmental impacts are being amplified by right-wing groups as part of a wider anti-wind \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/addressing-misinformation-offshore-wind-farms-and-recent-whale-mortalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misinformation<\/a>\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInitially, we were inclined to support these renewable energy efforts. Only when we understood the impacts and no empirical evidence supports their ability to help climate change, did we realize just how devastating the projects will be on the ocean\u2019s health and how little, if any, benefit the projects will provide,\u201d Dr. Elizabeth Quattrocki Knight, the co-founder and president of Green Oceans, a plaintiff in the suit, told the DCNF. \u201cNo empirical evidence demonstrates that offshore wind will help climate change. &nbsp;Over and over again, the government\u2019s Environmental Impact Statements admit that the effects of climate change will proceed unchecked and unchanged in this region, despite the presence of the projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NMFS declined to comment, citing the ongoing nature of the litigation. The White House, BOEM, DOI and the Army Corps of Engineers did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental rules and regulations that activists have used for years to drown disfavored infrastructure projects in litigation are now threatening a key pillar of President Joe Biden\u2019s massive climate agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":298402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Environmental rules and regulations that activists have used for years to drown disfavored infrastructure projects in litigation are now threatening a key pillar of President Joe Biden\u2019s massive climate agenda.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821210,691826532,691818301,691819094,691818864],"class_list":{"0":"post-298395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-agenda","9":"tag-environmental-activism","10":"tag-offshore-wind","11":"tag-renewable-green-energy","12":"tag-the-biden-administration","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0Biden_Offshore_Wind_65504-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1fCP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":298954,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298954","url_meta":{"origin":298395,"position":0},"title":"Offshore wind and the stress on commercial fishermen","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/01\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Congressional Republicans are sounding the Mayday alarm this weekend to the grave challenges commercial fishermen face resulting from the Biden administration\u2019s offshore wind agenda.","rel":"","context":"In \"Biden Administration\"","block_context":{"text":"Biden Administration","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=biden-administration"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0iStock-471711999-scaled-aspect-ratio-1280-418-scaled-1200x630-c-default.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0iStock-471711999-scaled-aspect-ratio-1280-418-scaled-1200x630-c-default.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0iStock-471711999-scaled-aspect-ratio-1280-418-scaled-1200x630-c-default.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0iStock-471711999-scaled-aspect-ratio-1280-418-scaled-1200x630-c-default.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0iStock-471711999-scaled-aspect-ratio-1280-418-scaled-1200x630-c-default.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":279336,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279336","url_meta":{"origin":298395,"position":1},"title":"Whale-Sized Revolt: Fishermen Slam Biden\u2019s Offshore Wind Power\u00a0Disaster","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The wind industry is determined to destroy the marine environment along the Atlantic coast; its fishermen are even more determined to stop them. 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