Residents of Long Beach Island, New Jersey, a beach town on the Jersey shore, are gearing up to file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for its “flawed” ruling in granting an offshore wind project a Clean Air Act permit.
On Oct. 1, the Environmental Protection Agency granted the permit to the Atlantic Shores South project, one of the final bureaucratic hoops project developers needed to jump through before breaking ground.
The Clean Air Act mandates that the EPA regulate air emissions from both “stationary and mobile sources,” prompting the agency to analyze the air pollutants that will be emitted. The EPA sets the standard for pollutant emissions.
The Washington Examiner first reported on the offshore wind project in July after the Biden administration gave its approval. The project promises to deliver clean energy to one million New Jersey Homes, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy…
