The Supreme Court decided on May 5 not to hear a challenge to the federal government’s approval of a major offshore wind project off the Massachusetts coast.
The court’s decision came without comment in an unsigned order in Seafreeze Shoreside Inc. v. Department of the Interior. No justices dissented. The lead petitioner, Seafreeze Shoreside, is a seafood processing company.
The project, known as Vineyard Wind 1, is located 15 miles off the coast of Nantucket Island.
The case goes back to 2021, when the Biden administration approved dozens of wind energy generation projects on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts “in a rush to replace fossil fuels as this nation’s primary source of electricity,” according to the petition filed by Seafreeze and other parties challenging the project’s approval….