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BOEM to consider revocation of SouthCoast Wind approval
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CT Mirror
The Interior Department agency regulating offshore wind development asked a federal judge on Thursday to allow the reconsideration of a key approval for the SouthCoast Wind project — an approval granted by the same agency in January in the final days of the Biden administration.
This is the second time in a week that the administration has sought a remand of an offshore wind project approval, the other being for Maryland’s US Wind project.
It comes just weeks after the Interior Department in court filings expressed its intent to remand not only its approval for SouthCoast Wind, but also New England Wind — two important projects for Massachusetts and New Bedford.
“BOEM determined that it ‘may have failed to account for all the impacts that the SouthCoast Wind Project may cause,’” the motion states.
Mayor Jon Mitchell previously said a delay or cancellation of New England Wind and SouthCoast Wind could mean a loss of up to 200 jobs in the city.
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