Rhode Island Wind Project Survives Request to Pause Approvals

Conservation groups lost their bid to halt federal agency approvals for Revolution Wind LLC’s wind project off the coast of Rhode Island after a federal judge said a step was skipped.

The motion was rejected because the organizations didn’t meet or confer with the defendants before filing, which is required by a US District Court for the District of Columbia local rule, Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Tuesday.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the project in 2023 based on a biological opinion issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service that determined species protected by the Endangered ...