New Jersey Groups Lose Court Bid to Pause Empire Wind Project

A federal judge denied a request from several local groups that would’ve halted work on the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project near New York, giving a win to the Trump administration that sought to keep the project going.

Washington, DC, District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols on Friday denied Save Long Beach Island Inc. and others’ request to grant a preliminary injunction or stay, saying that the plaintiffs didn’t meet the high bar to show irreparable harm, and that had they done so, they also didn’t show said harm is “certain and great.”

The plaintiffs also didn’t prove the ...