In a consolidated case comprising four lawsuits, Judge Reggie B. Walton in the US District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the Interior Department’s review and approval of 468MW Cape Wind – a permitting process that took 10 years.

In his ruling, Walton also rejected a long list of legal claims project opponents had raised including arguments over navigational safety, alternative locations, alternative technologies, historic preservation, Native American artifacts, sea turtles, and the adequacy of the project's environmental impact statement and biological opinions.

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