A coalition of stakeholders led by Cape May County, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration Tuesday, challenging the development of a massive offshore wind farm along the county's coastline. The lawsuit – which names the Interior Department and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, among other federal officials and agencies, as defendants –
"As we’ve said many times, we spent the better part of two years trying to negotiate with Orsted to redesign this project in a way that would cause less damage to the environment and less damage to our tourism and fisheries interests," said Cape May County Board of Commissioners Director Len Desiderio. "Our reasonable proposals fell on deaf ears as state and federal regulators rubber-stamped permits to rush the Ocean Wind 1 project to approval."
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