The memorandum cited the consequences of deficiencies underlying the federal government's leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects, leading to "negative impacts on navigational safety interests, transportation interests, national security interests, commercial interests, and marine mammals."
But the lawsuit argued the memorandum "harms the states' efforts to secure reliable, diversified, and affordable sources of energy to meet the ever-increasing demand for electricity; their billions of dollars in investments in supply chains, workforce development, and wind-industry-related infrastructure, including transmission upgrades; and their statutory- and policy-based efforts to protect public health and welfare from harmful air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, as well as greenhouse-gas emissions."