Delaware Think Tank Challenges Offshore Wind Project
February 26th, 2025 — by Charles Miller — Category: Offshore Energy
In October of 2024, the Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) filed suit against Shawn Garvin, Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), challenging the creation of wind turbines off the shores of Delaware. The wind turbines would be a part of the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, but are expected to bring various benefits to Delaware as well.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) has entered a new era with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent designation of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” as hazardous substances. Announced on April 19, 2024, and entered into force on July 8, 2024, this designation represents a shift in the environmental law landscape.
Don’t Cage Our Oceans: The Army Corps’ Nationwide Permit for Commercial Finfish Aquaculture Found to be Unlawful
October 24th, 2024 — by Ashlyn Tracy — Category: Aquaculture
In 2022, Don’t Cage Our Oceans and other nonprofit organizations groups (collectively “DCOO”) sued the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) for its issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 (“NWP 56”), which authorized the installation of finfish aquaculture structures within oceans around the country.