A local grassroots organization condemned an arm of the federal government for spurning the National Environmental Policy Act as it completed its final review to assess potential offshore wind development actions across 488,000 acres in the New York Bight, an area north of the Atlantic Shores South project. The latter offshore wind farm is planned off the coast of Long Beach Island and was approved by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management earlier this year.

On Oct. 21, BOEM issued the final programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS), which identifies “avoidance,…