Beach Town Poised To Use Green Left’s Favorite Legal Strategy Against Massive Offshore Wind Project
Nick Pope
Contributor
March 28, 2025
The town of Nantucket, Massachusetts looks set to use one of the green left’s go-to legal strategies against a massive offshore wind farm supported by liberal environmentalists.
Environmental groups have used “sue and settle” tactics — wherein plaintiffs sue an aligned administration to kill a disfavored project, which the aligned administration effectively does via settlement — for decades to impede infrastructure projects they oppose. Now, Nantucket is suing the Trump administration and alleging that key procedural laws were not followed in Biden-era approvals for the massive SouthCoast wind farm off the island’s coast, teeing up a potential “sue and settle” situation that could derail a major project supported by the green left.
Nantucket’s lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) as defendants, even though the Trump administration was not in power when the government approved SouthCoast Wind’s paperwork. If completed, the SouthCoast project will feature up to 147 massive wind turbine generators across a 199-square mile lease area located about 20 miles south of Nantucket. (RELATED: ‘David And Goliath’: Offshore Wind Opponents Ecstatic With Trump’s Day One Assault Against Industry)
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