Articles from Green Oceans

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.