Feds move to pause Delaware wind power lawsuit as Ocean City case takes center stage

WILMINGTON, DE — Federal officials are asking a Delaware judge to temporarily halt a legal battle over a major offshore wind project, citing an expected court decision in a related Maryland case that could render the Delaware suit pointless.

The U.S. Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers filed a motion on Thursday to stay proceedings in Bintz v. U.S. Department of the Interior, a lawsuit challenging the federal approval of the Maryland Offshore Wind Project located roughly 12 miles off the Delaware coast.

At the core of the motion is a pending effort by Interior to undo its own approval of the project’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP), which both the Delaware and Maryland lawsuit

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