Articles from Green Oceans

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has authorized the lawsuit seeking to stop the construction of giant, environmentally destructive wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts to move forward, the non-partisan, independent grassroots group Green Oceans said today.

Green Oceans, the nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to protecting our oceans against industrialization, said today it filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief asking the Supreme Court to hear cases that seek to overturn federal approval of the Vineyard Wind project.

Citing desecration of spaces sacred to its culture by the construction of offshore wind turbines, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is supporting the grassroots group Green Oceans’ federal lawsuit to stop the Revolution Wind project by submitting witness declarations.

Green Oceans, the nonpartisan, nonprofit community group fighting to preserve Rhode Island’s bays, beaches, and ocean from environmental harm, called today for a federal and state moratorium on all offshore wind (OSW) development in the wake of the unfolding environmental debacle from a shattered wind turbine blade off Nantucket.