Groups Sue to Halt NY Wind Project After Court-Ordered Restart

Advocates, fishermen, and tribal groups on Tuesday urged a court to reject the Interior Department’s approval of the Sunrise Wind project offshore of New York.

Interior violated multiple federal laws by failing to properly consider the project’s effects on issues such as the environment and maritime navigation, Green Oceans, the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, and others said in their complaint filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The project additionally “interferes with numerous different radar systems” and presents other safety issues to people and aquatic life, the groups claimed.

Sunrise Wind, an Orsted ...