Offshore Wind Lawsuits 2025
In several East Coast states, various legal actions have been filed against offshore wind projects. Local stakeholders and environmental groups have filed lawsuits regarding the permitting process for offshore wind initiatives.
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A December 2024 video posted by Project_Veritas showed an EPA appointee saying that at the end of the Biden administration, they were “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” rushing to get tax dollars out the door before President Trump took office. One of the SouthCoast Wind permits was also approved during this period.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) December 27, 2024, adopted the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM)'s final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and issued a permit to SouthCoast Wind.
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In March 2025, the Town of Nantucket filed a lawsuit at the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the federal approval of the SouthCoast Wind offshore wind project. The legal action is based on the permit process regarding the preservation of Nantucket's historic district and environmental impacts.
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Nantucket claims the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management violated the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by not adequately considering the project's potential harms.
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The lawsuit highlights the July 13, 2024, environmental blade disaster off the coast of Nantucket, where 50 tons of foam, fiberglass, balsa wood, and microplastics contaminated beaches and impacted tourism. It was later revealed that up to 150 blades manufactured in Canada were defective; many had already been installed off the Nantucket coast.
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The timeline for a federal trial in the District of Columbia can vary. Generally, it may take several months to over a year from the filing of a case to the actual trial date, depending on various factors such as case complexity and the court's schedule.
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Public sentiment has grown against offshore wind as whale deaths increase near wind construction, blade accidents, poor communication with town officials, and years of power purchase agreement failures with local power companies.
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SouthCoast Wind still lacks several Rhode Island permits to bring cables onshore at Brayton Point in Massachusetts.
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The Nantucket federal request to set aside the approval of SouthCoast Wind:
Case 1:25-cv-00906 Document 1 Filed 03/27/25
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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