For the second time in less than two years, Save LBI has sued an arm of the federal government for violating national laws regulating environmental policy and failing to protect endangered species, using this year’s increase in the death of humpback whales and dolphins off the coast of New Jersey and New York as its catalyst for the filing.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court of New Jersey earlier this month, seeks a total stoppage of offshore wind vessel survey work “until such time as the…