In November two environmental organizations (C-Fact & Heartland Institute) served the required 60 day notice of intent to sue the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), a sub-agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This lawsuit will allege deficiencies in the govt. reviews regarding the critically-endangered North Atlantic Right Whales.

Thus, there are pending court challenges against NOAA's views, potentially undercutting the NOAA paragraph that Joe quoted.

Report titled: ‘OBVIOUS VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW’: FORTHCOMING LITIGATION COULD GUM UP AMERICA’S LARGEST-EVER OFFSHORE WIND FARM   Click Here  

Quotes: “This letter officially puts BOEM on notice that CFACT is prepared to file suit in order to expose the agency’s clear violation of federal law in failing to protect the North Atlantic right whale. By refusing to consider the cumulative impact of the dozens of industrial offshore wind facilities, consisting of several thousand individual turbines planned for the East Coast, it adopted a piecemeal approach, which only considered each individual offshore wind project in isolation”

"This obvious violation of federal law was ignored by the oversight agencies but will not be tolerated by the courts” C-Fact's president Craig Rucker said.

So I'm staying tuned in.