Offshore Win(d): D.C. Circuit Dismisses Challenge to BOEM Leasing Program
By EsqSocial Corporation 25/05/21
On May 20, 2021, the D.C. Circuit affirmed a U.S. District Court ruling dismissing an appeal brought by the Fisheries Survival Fund, Garden State Seafood Association and seaside municipalities (“Appellants”) challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (“BOEM”) decision to issue an offshore lease for a wind energy facility off the coast of New York. Although the dismissal was purely on procedural grounds, in this case those procedures represent the very framework of BOEM’s offshore wind...
By: Locke Lord LLP