Articles from Green Oceans

Green Oceans applauds the Trump Administration for making a landmark decision to suspend all large-scale offshore wind projects, prioritizing national security. “By President Trump and Secretary Burgum prioritizing national security over a faulty energy program, the Administration reinforces its stance that safeguarding the nation remains paramount,” said Lisa Knight, president, Green Oceans. She continues, “This action reflects a proactive approach to mitigating serious vulnerabilities to our missile defense posed by the rushed industrial development of offshore infrastructure.”

Today, the Marzulla Law Firm filed a motion for summary judgment on behalf of Green Oceans, a Rhode Island–based non-profit dedicated to protecting the ocean and the ecosystems it sustains, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The motion requests the Court to vacate and remand federal approvals for the Revolution Wind offshore wind project.

Today, Green Oceans, joined by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, Shinnecock Nation, Narragansett Tribe, Unkechaug Nation, and a coalition of 11 other groups, filed two petitions with nine federal agencies calling for the immediate suspension of all projects off the Northeast Atlantic coast in addition to Revolution Wind, including South Fork, SouthCoast, Sunrise, Vineyard, Empire, and New England Wind projects, pending a full review that could lead to cancelling the leases.

Green Oceans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to protecting ocean health, applauds the Trump Administration’s decision to rescind designated Wind Energy Areas on the outer continental shelf (OCS) of the U.S. Secretary Doug Burgum and the DOI Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) announced bold and definitive action to correct misguided leasing policy practices for offshore wind development. Green Oceans thanks the Department and President Trump for putting fact-based, scientific data before speculative foreign entity interests.

The Army Corps has confirmed it is reviewing the Green Oceans’ petition to revoke Ørsted’s Revolution Wind permit.

Three Native American tribes, the Shinnecock Nation, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, the Narragansett Tribe, ACK for Whales, and Green Oceans have petitioned the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to revoke the authorizations granted to harass and harm whales and other marine mammals during the construction of the Sunrise, Revolution, and New England Wind projects.

Green Oceans, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, today released its comprehensive report entitled, Cancelling Offshore Wind Leases. The report, by Planet A Strategies, analyzes the legal frameworks underlying federal agency decision-making for offshore wind (OSW) development in six offshore wind projects located in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Wind Energy Areas (RI/MA WEAs), which encompass nearly a million acres of ocean territory on the outer coastal shelf. It outlines potential violations of statutory and regulatory requirements under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and finds that the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) decisions to promulgate these contracts not only exceed its statutory authority but also violate procedural law to justify projects that are causing irreversible environmental, cultural, and economic consequences.

Green Oceans, the independent and nonpartisan environmental grassroots organization, called upon the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New England District to suspend and revoke the permit previously granted to the Revolution Wind project.

Green Oceans, joined by a coalition of environmental, fishing, tribal, and community organizations, called upon U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt all offshore wind construction in the New England coastal waters.

Green Oceans, the nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots group leading the fight against the industrialization of the oceans in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, said Tuesday it has formally requested the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and revoke the permit approvals for the Revolution Wind project after the original approvals were tainted by material omissions in the air pollution analysis.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has authorized the lawsuit seeking to stop the construction of giant, environmentally destructive wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts to move forward, the non-partisan, independent grassroots group Green Oceans said today.

Green Oceans, the nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to protecting our oceans against industrialization, said today it filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief asking the Supreme Court to hear cases that seek to overturn federal approval of the Vineyard Wind project.

Citing desecration of spaces sacred to its culture by the construction of offshore wind turbines, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is supporting the grassroots group Green Oceans’ federal lawsuit to stop the Revolution Wind project by submitting witness declarations.

Green Oceans, the nonpartisan, nonprofit community group fighting to preserve Rhode Island’s bays, beaches, and ocean from environmental harm, called today for a federal and state moratorium on all offshore wind (OSW) development in the wake of the unfolding environmental debacle from a shattered wind turbine blade off Nantucket.