Save Long Beach Island, an organization of New Jersey residents opposed to the Atlantic Shores South offshore wind project, filed its fourth lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that the project will cause serious harm to the population of the North Atlantic right whale, an endangered species. 

The lawsuit names the Department of Commerce, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind as defendants. Save Long Beach Island lawyer Thomas Stavola Jr. said the proposed offshore project, set to be built just 9 miles off the New Jersey coast, is in violation of at least six environmental statutes: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Clean Air Act.