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Barbara Brink Chapman is a retired land use lawyer and educator, who has served as counsel to the New York City Planning Commission. A graduate of Princeton and University of Virginia Law School, she and her family have lived on Aquidneck Island for over 30 years, close to wetland habitats. When not resident in Newport she resides in Palm Beach, Florida, and Antigua. She is an active native plant gardener in all three locations and serves on the Board of the Elkhorn Marine Conservancy protecting marine life on the eastern coast of Antigua. In addition she is involved in studying and mitigating beach erosion in and around Exchange Bay, Antigua. As a trained lawyer, Barbara has spearheaded our legal effort.
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Green Oceans Files Federal Lawsuit
Jan 20
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GREEN OCEANS LEADS 35 CO-PLAINTIFFS IN LAWSUIT ALLEGING U.S. AGENCIES
ILLEGALLY APPROVED OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. – Rhode Island-based Green Oceans, a non-partisan, grassroots, not-for-profit organization dedicated to protecting the ocean and the ecosystems it sustains, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging four federal agencies shortcut statutory and regulatory procedures and violated environmental protection laws by approving the South Fork and Revolution Wind projects. An additional 35 co-plaintiffs joined the litigation. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and their respective administrative leaders issued permits for the two projects on the critical marine habitat known as Coxes Ledge despite the acknowledgment of serious irreversible harm, and without adequate environmental impact studies. The lawsuit asks the court to invalidate the approvals for both projects until the government complies with all relevant statutes and regulations.
“In a rush to meet state mandates, we cannot short-circuit our country’s most important environmental and natural resource policies. This suit will ensure the federal government follows its own rules and regulations,” said Green Ocean’s Co-founder and President Dr. Elizabeth Quattrocki Knight.
Filed under the Administrative Procedure Act, the suit intends to prove that the federal agencies violated eight statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Clean Water Act, and their associated regulatory programs.
The suit highlights the alarming scale of proposed offshore wind plans – up to 1,000 turbines, each towering over 870 feet high. The closest turbines will reside just 12.9 nautical miles from the Rhode Island coast. Collectively, the nine projects planned for the waters off the coast of Rhode Island represent the largest offshore development anywhere in the world. The Green Oceans suit alleges that BOEM did not adequately consider the cumulative impact of the entire lease area, a legal requirement. No geographic boundaries exist between the nine different projects planned for the 1,400 square miles of coastal waters between Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
“Marine mammals will not appreciate whether any given turbine belongs to one project or another. Legally, BOEM must evaluate the collective impact, not just each project in isolation,” Dr. Quattrocki Knight emphasized. The projects threaten to permanently alter the environmentally sensitive Coxes Ledge, one of the last remaining spawning grounds for Southern New England cod and an important habitat for the North Atlantic right whale and four other endangered whale species.
Barbara Chapman, a Green Oceans trustee, added, “Even people who support the concept of wind power understand the threat to sea life. On the official NOAA site, they have granted the developer of Revolution Wind, just one project of many, permission to harm and harass over 13,000 marine animals, including 568 whales, during the course of a single year. We do not consider 13,000 a small number.”
“BOEM admits the projects will have adverse impacts on the health of our fisheries, navigation safety, historic resources, the North Atlantic right whale, and environmental justice populations, while having no effect on climate change. Why accept this irreversible environmental damage for no overall gain?” questions Green Ocean’s Co-founder and Vice President, Bill Thompson.
Co-plaintiffs to the suit include the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, Save Right Whales Coalition, New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, Bat World Sanctuary, three former Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board members, along with local and regional recreational fishermen, sailors, boaters, pilots, conservationists, residents, and leading members of the business community.
Green Oceans is a nonprofit, non-partisan group of community members dedicated to combating climate change without jeopardizing biodiversity or the health of the ocean. For more information or to get involved, visit: https://green-oceans.org/.
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September 14, 2025
This past July, Brown made a deal with the Trump administration to restore the University’s federal funds. But the deal was not the end of threats to Brown’s research funding.
On Aug. 11, Brown received a letter from Marzulla Law, a law firm with close ties to the conservative legal movement, on behalf of Green Oceans, a local anti-offshore wind group. In the letter, the law firm demanded the University retract three publications from 2023 and 2024 authored by researchers at the Climate and Development Lab, claiming that the publications contained “materially false claims” about the nonprofit and caused “significant harm.”
In the letter, which was obtained by The Herald, the firm stated they are “preparing coordinated reports to key public and private funding bodies,” including the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the Mellon Foundation. The letter stated that “Green Oceans will consider all available legal remedies” if the University does not comply.
In an email to The Herald, Barbara Chapman P’18 P’20, a Green Oceans trustee and member of the litigation team, wrote that the organization believes it has the grounds for further legal action.
“The publications contain provably false statements that have damaged Green Oceans’ reputation and fundraising and have been amplified by others,” Chapman wrote.
In a statement to The Herald, University Spokesperson Brian Clark affirmed Brown’s commitment to “academic freedom” and the right of faculty to “shape their own research and course of instruction at Brown.”
Marzulla Law’s threats of endangering federal funding would likely not apply to the CDL, which is privately funded and does not receive support from the sources that the law firm listed in its letter, according to the head of the center, Timmons Roberts, who is a professor of environment, society and sociology.
As a think tank that studies climate change policy based within the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, one of the CDL’s primary research areas is the “seemingly grassroots and sometimes actually grassroots” organizations that oppose the development of offshore wind plants in the northeastern United States, said undergraduate CDL researcher Charlotte Calkins ’27.
This includes tracking the connections between anti-offshore wind groups, their lawyers, the fossil fuel industry and right-wing think tanks, Calkins continued.
In an interview with The Herald, Roberts said the CDL aims to understand what players are blocking climate change and how they are doing so. The original assumption of climate researchers was that as scientists discovered solutions to climate change, people would “naturally, automatically” shift away from using fossil fuels, he said.
“But of course, that was quite naive,” Roberts added.
Fossil fuel companies stand to lose revenue as reliance on renewable energy grows, he said. “So they are actively engaged in trying to undermine, stop, slow and roll back that transition that just has to happen.”
Since the CDL began publishing research about Green Oceans a few years ago, they have received multiple complaints from the group, which organizes against the development of offshore wind turbine farms in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Green Oceans has also demanded that academic journals remove research conducted by the CDL. But the August letter was the first time they directly threatened Brown’s research funding, according to Roberts.
Isaac Slevin ’25, the first author on two of the targeted papers, called anti-wind groups’ criticism of his research “unsubstantiated.” The CDL has also sent letters pushing back against the claims and have faced no subsequent legal action.
Roberts feels confident that the CDL will be safe against legal threats.
“There’s some language in here about documented, ongoing harm, and it’s quite hard to imagine that this is real harm,” he said. He pointed to the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” raised by Green Oceans and their substantial national influence as evidence of the group’s success.
Green Oceans disagrees.
“The harm has escalated,” Chapman wrote. “The CDL publications have been widely amplified, used to exclude our participation in public forums, and have contributed to a hostile environment.”
It remains unclear if Marzulla Law actually has the sway necessary with public or private sources to pose an actual threat to Brown’s research funding. The firm did not respond to a request for comment.
Chapman wrote to The Herald that Green Oceans is “not asking anyone to stop supporting research at Brown,” but rather “asking funders and administrators to ensure that work bearing Brown’s name meets basic standards of accuracy, disclosure, and fairness.”
On Sept. 2, Green Oceans filed a memorandum in support of the Trump administration’s order halting construction on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion project to construct a wind farm that would have powered over 350,000 homes across Rhode Island and Connecticut. The construction of Revolution Wind was 80% complete when construction was halted.
Nancie and Roger Marzulla, co-founders of Marzulla Law, were listed as their attorneys on Green Oceans’s memorandum. Green Oceans also provided recommendations to senior officials in the Interior Department about how to cancel offshore wind leases, according to emails obtained by Politico.
In an Aug. 27 statement, they claimed that they “have never received funding from the fossil fuel industry or related organizations.”
But the CDL’s research never claimed that Green Oceans directly received funding from fossil fuel companies, according to Roberts, Slevin and Calkins. A key point in the research, Slevin said, is that the connections between local anti-offshore wind groups and fossil fuel companies extend far beyond the money.
Following the funds that groups receive from companies with anti-renewable energy interests, such as fossil fuel corporations is useful, but “cannot be the only framework that we work through, because it writes local agencies out of the picture,” Slevin told The Herald.
The CDL’s research instead explores “information subsidies,” which are lines of reasoning, talking points and terminology that “trickle down” to local groups from fossil fuel-funded think tanks, Calkins explained. Although the local groups may not directly be tied to fossil fuel companies, their lawyers and information sources may be closer, the CDL’s research posits.
In their statement to The Herald, Green Oceans maintains that the CDL’s research is false.
“Questioning whether offshore wind delivers real climate benefits while inflicting undeniable environmental harm is not spreading misinformation; rather it represents responsible science and public advocacy,” Chapman wrote.
According to Roberts, legal complaints like the Aug. 11 letter appear to have the “intent to silence our voices.” But he and his team feel even more inclined to continue their work.
Less than two weeks after the Aug. 11 letter, the CDL published a new report showing the Marzullas at the center of a web of “anti-environmental litigation and lobbying, and deep ties to fossil fuel interests,” the report says. The firm has a history of environmental litigation in federal courts, defending clients such as developers and local coalitions, according to the CDL report.
A version of the paper had already been drafted when they received the letter, Roberts said, and the notice “made me want to quickly put it up.”
Slevin said he feels that it symbolizes a bigger “political vibe shift” where universities are targets of “bullying.”
“I think if you’re doing effective environmental work, I would hope that you’re pissing off arms of the fossil fuel industry and their allies,” he added.
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Elise Haulund is the managing editor of production and development for The Herald's 136th Editorial Board. She is from Redondo Beach, CA. Concentrating in English and biology, she has a passion for exploring the intersection between STEM and the humanities. Outside of writing, researching and editing, she enjoys ballet-dancing, cafe-hopping and bullet-journaling.
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
The firm, which represents opponents of offshore wind, said it would complain to Brown’s federal and private funding sources.
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By Lisa Friedman
Aug. 25, 2025
A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.
The firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C., which has close ties to the conservative legal movement, called the research “false and injurious” and said it would complain to Brown’s public and private funders, including the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
A spokesman for the university, Brian E. Clark, did not comment directly on the law firm’s demands but said the university intended to uphold its principles of academic freedom.
“Scholars shape their own research and course of instruction at Brown,” Mr. Clark said in a statement. “One principle that is core to research at Brown is the ability for scholars to discuss contested topics and themes and to have those topics openly debated.”
Roger J. Marzulla, a founding partner of the firm, did not respond to email and telephone requests for comment.
The demands come at a precarious time for the nation’s universities, which have become targets of a pressure campaign conducted by the Trump administration. Last month, Brown struck a deal with the government to restore lost federal research funding and end investigations into alleged discrimination.
The Trump administration is trying to stop the country’s nascent wind industry, a source of energy that President Trump has disparaged since he failed to stop an offshore wind farm from being built within view of one of his Scottish golf courses.
Marzulla Law L.L.C. is representing several groups that are fighting offshore wind, including Green Oceans, a nonprofit organization that is trying to overturn federal permits for Revolution Wind, a 65-turbine wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.
That $6.2 billion project is nearly built, but on Friday the Trump administration ordered construction to stop, citing unspecified concerns.
In an Aug. 11 letter to Brown’s general counsel, Mr. Marzulla objected to research published by the Climate and Development Lab at Brown that found that Green Oceans had spread misinformation about climate change and operated as part of “a fossil-fuel-funded disinformation network.”
Mark Herr, a spokesman for Green Oceans, said in a statement that Green Oceans was a local and nonpartisan group, adding, “We have no association with the fossil fuel industry nor any conservative political groups.”
“These oft-repeated lies are designed to discredit the messenger while preventing the public from absorbing the substance of our valid and well-researched concerns,” he said.
J. Timmons Roberts, who leads the Climate and Development Lab, said in an interview that his students had found that groups fighting offshore wind “have chosen to get in bed with some of the most anti-environment and anti-climate actors.” He called the letter “strategic harassment to shut me up and waste my time and make me more cautious.”
Lauren Kurtz, the executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides legal aid to climate scientists, called the letter academic harassment.
“It definitely struck me that they were dangling the possibility of getting the Trump administration involved,” Ms. Kurtz said. “It seems to me like they’re trying to bully Brown and their researchers.”
The Climate and Development Lab, founded in 2010, is a student and faculty research organization. Nearly three years ago, students began looking into groups fighting offshore wind off the coast of Rhode Island.
Their research does not accuse Green Ocean of accepting money from fossil fuel companies, but it highlights the similarities between arguments made by Green Ocean and those advanced by fossil fuel groups that spread climate misinformation.
A new publication issued by the Climate Development Lab on Friday maps connections between groups that oppose offshore wind and the law firms that represent them, and uses Marzulla Law as a case study. It describes the firm as having “a history of advancing anti-environmental lawsuits and significant ties with the fossil fuel industry.”
Mr. Marzulla and his wife, Nancie, who together founded the firm in 1997, both previously worked at Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest law firm based in Colorado.
Mr. Marzulla took over as head of the foundation in 1981, and later the couple founded the Defenders of Property Rights, which defended private property owners from what they viewed as cumbersome environmental regulations. Defenders of Property Rights joined the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group of organizations that rejected the scientific finding that the burning of fossil fuels was driving climate change.
Lisa Friedman is a Times reporter who writes about how governments are addressing climate change and the effects of those policies on communities.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: Right-Wing Firm Presses Brown Over Wind Study.
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(Bloomberg) — Timmons Roberts is used to receiving legal complaints about his work examining groups who oppose offshore wind.
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What was surprising about the letter he received earlier this month wasn’t that one of those groups was asking Roberts and his employer, Brown University, to retract some of his research. It was that the group was represented by a Washington, DC law firm, that said it was preparing to send “coordinated reports” about his work to the US National Science Foundation and Energy Department.
The move parallels the recent targeting of universities over alleged antisemitism and for their diversity initiatives, suggesting climate and clean energy research could be another line of attack.
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Roberts’ research focuses on opposition to offshore wind and other forms of climate obstruction. In a 2023 report, he and his research team chronicled how arguments made by the group Green Oceans — based in Little Compton, Rhode Island — echoed claims made by fossil fuel-funded opposition groups.
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In response, Green Oceans enlisted a different law firm and asked him to take down the research, saying it was causing reputational harm. The group and Roberts met in May 2024, but there was no resolution. Roberts said his research was already in peer review at the time, and it was subsequently published in a journal later that year. (In its most recent letter, Green Oceans said Roberts “threatened to publish the same material in a peer-reviewed journal.”)
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The group sent the latest letter via Marzulla Law, dated Aug. 11, 2025. Green Oceans asked for “immediate corrective action by Brown University” to take down three publications from Roberts’ group and conduct a formal review into “publishing and oversight practices.”
In the letter, Green Oceans also said it sent a request to the journal to retract the study, which was denied, as was a request for a local environmental newsroom to retract a story on the findings.
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Green Oceans declined to comment, saying the letter laid out its position.
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“Everything in this letter, practically, they’ve said before” in previous letters, Roberts said. But the warning about escalating the matter to the administration was a shift. The letter notes that “Brown University has received significant federal funding,” and that Green Oceans was drafting reports chronicling “the pattern of misconduct and institutional risks of continued association with research units that engage in political targeting.”
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Roberts said his lab isn’t funded by the NSF or the Energy Department, nor is the Climate Social Science Network, an international constellation of researchers who study climate politics. Bloomberg has contacted the agencies for comment.
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The letter “sounds like going to the Trump administration to do what in fact the Trump administration has done with universities: That is, threaten them and their funding,” Roberts said. He added that he’s been in touch with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Science Legal Defense fund, nonprofits that defend academic freedom.
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In response to questions about how Brown was handling the new communication from Green Oceans, a university spokesperson said, “scholars shape their own research and course of instruction at Brown. One principle that is core to research at Brown is the ability for scholars to discuss contested topics and themes, and to have those topics openly debated.”
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The letter was sent by Marzulla Law, a boutique property-rights firm run by husband and wife duo Roger and Nancie Marzulla. Both worked for the US Department of Justice under former President Ronald Reagan, and Roger Marzulla served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources division. The firm has argued a number of anti-offshore wind cases, including one brought by Green Oceans challenging the Revolution Wind Project off the Rhode Island coast. Roberts published new research on Aug. 22 that includes exploring Marzulla Law’s connections with the offshore wind opponents.
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The firm didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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The request to take down research and the proposed escalation of the complaint to the administration is “extraordinary,” said Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine and general counsel of the American Association of University Professors.
The Trump administration has assailed universities for a host of issues, including allegations of failing to confront antisemitism and promoting diversity programs. Columbia and Brown universities reached deals with the White House to unfreeze hundreds of millions of dollars in US funding. The University of Pennsylvania was the first to settle for allowing a transgender swimmer on the women’s team.
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The NSF has cut more than 100 climate research grants since Trump took office and has said it “will not support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation.’”
Researchers whose work doesn’t align with administration policy are finding “their jobs, their funding, their futures” at risk, Dubal said.
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The Trump administration has also taken actions to cut support for renewables, particularly offshore wind. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has put forward a barrage of policies designed to stop offshore wind development. Those include halting the sale of new offshore wind leases and removing millions of acres of ocean that had been set aside for future wind projects.
The Interior Department on Aug. 22 halted the mostly built Revolution Wind project off the Rhode Island coast, citing the need for further review. Green Oceans opposes the project.
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In April, the administration temporarily stopped work on the $5 billion Empire Wind project off the coast of New York, sending a shudder through the industry. (It allowed construction to resume in May.) Trump has repeatedly attacked wind farms, saying they have ruined the views of some of his golf properties.
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Offshore wind has also been the subject of numerous attacks and lawsuits by local coastal residents. Those efforts have been successful in some cases; one notable example is Cape Wind, which was canceled in the face of opposition from wealthy homeowners on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket who included the Kennedy family and industrialist William Koch.
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Kit Kennedy, a managing director for power, climate and energy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said there’s broad bipartisan support for wind — including from a majority of Republicans, according to a June poll commissioned by pro-offshore wind group Turn Forward — and that building more projects may help assuage any concerns. She said the Brown research has been “very, very valuable” to understanding anti-wind influence groups.
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But according to Parrish Bergquist, an energy policy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, the administration’s push against offshore wind may mean “we’re going to start to see deeper polarization on this, in a way that mirrors attitudes about climate change more generally.”
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Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.
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Oil-funded groups are engaging in strategic harassment to stop scientists from revealing the nature of their politically-linked disinformation networks – in what should be a surprise to nobody.
A new report came out last week from the Climate & Development Lab (CDL) at Brown University, titled “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States.”
The study focuses on several examples of law firms with connections to anti-wind groups, the fossil fuel industry, and the American political right wing. These fossil-funded groups have spread disinformation to slow the adoption of clean and cheap wind power, in order to keep America addicted to the poison that the fossil fuel industry wants to keep selling us.
The lab is headed by J Timmons Roberts, but the research was done by various students and faculty at at the lab. The new report builds onformer research by the CDL cataloguing extensive connections between these groups and the dark money networks that fund the anti-wind movement.
Why the East Coast needs offshore wind
Offshore wind, especially in the North Atlantic, is a cheap and abundant form of energy that is heretofore relatively untapped in the US. It also has very little environmental cost, given that its carbon emissions and land use are both zero, and wind tends to be quite consistent over the ocean, making it more reliable as a power source.
Many other countries have successfully implemented offshore wind projects to bring this cheap and clean power to their populaces, with particular booms in China, the UK, Vietnam, Germany and several other Northern European countries (like Denmark, where many large wind power companies are based).
And wind is important for the global transition to renewable energy and the fight against climate change. As a zero-emission power source, it’s essential for meeting the US East Coast’s climate and renewable energy goals, and could provide a huge chunk of the power needs for the entire US Eastern seaboard, where the country’s population is clustered.
However, offshore wind has recently encountered setbacks due to the spread of disinformation from fossil-funded networks, which has made its way into the popular conception and into right-wing politics. (Nevertheless, Americans of all political stripes still support greater deployment of offshore wind)
How and why fossil fuel companies oppose wind
Fossil fuel companies oppose wind power because it would help to wean America off of fossil fuels, displacing coal and methane generation for electricity and enabling greater electrification of the vehicle fleet to wean us off of oil. All of these would result in air quality improvements, cost reductions, health improvements and avoidance of climate change – which are all anathema to themost deadly industry the world has ever seen.
So, fossil fuel companies have developed and funded a complicated network of fake public interest groups, politicians and lawyers to oppose wind power by spreading disinformation. And the CDL’s report highlights how certain legal firms have received funding from fossil fuel companies and/or given support to these fake public interest groups in attempts to sue wind projects out of existence.
One of many diagrams in the report showing these anti-wind legal networks
While many of these lawsuits have been unsuccessful, they can still add delays to a project, making it more expensive and slower to deploy (which then makes your electricity more expensive). In some cases, the delays can result in project cancellation, like when oil billionaire William Koch sued Cape Wind out of existence via a fake public interest group called the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
In the report, five specific legal networks are highlighted in particular, showing how each is related to fossil fuels and science denial. The networks have provided representation, written comments, filed lawsuits and otherwise spread disinformation in an attempt to stop the public good that offshore wind power represents.
The nature of the disinformation
The disinformation largely focuses on the North Atlantic Right Whale, a whale whose population is currently experiencing an “unusual mortality event” due to changing climate and Atlantic shipping and fishing.
Anti-wind groups have invoked laws like the Endangers Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act, despite the fact that the products of the industry they are funded by are the deadliest thing for marine life.
Burning oil raises both the temperature and acidity of our oceans, disrupting marine ecosystems in profound ways. For example, North Atlantic krill populations have dropped by 50% due to ocean warming driven by fossil fuel use. Krill are the main food source for the North Atlantic Right Whale, which anti-wind groups claim to be interested in protecting, but are in fact aiding the decline of.
Further, whale populations are directly harmed by vessel strikes, which are the leading direct cause of death for North Atlantic Right Whales in recent years. And29% of those vessels are carrying oil across the globe – shipments that would be unnecessary if transportation were powered by clean renewable energy instead of deadly oil. Not only that, but some of the exact same groups that oppose wind also opposed draft regulations to reduce vessel strikes, showing that they are actually interested in continuing to harm whales, not protecting them.
Law firm responds to the truth by pressuring university to hide it
One of the law firms highlighted in the report, Marzulla Law, sent a letter threatening its authors. Marzulla Law said it would complain to mommy… I mean, Brown’s funding sources, including the US Department of Energy which a former oil executive is currently squatting as the head of, in an attempt to get the entirety of Brown University’s funding pulled if the CDL doesn’t self-censor its research findings.
The CDL itself is not funded by the Department of Energy, Roberts said to Bloomberg, so the threat isn’t even related to CDL’s funding sources, but to Brown University’s as a whole.
Marzulla Law represented one of the disinformation groups which the CDL has highlighted before, the deceptively-named “Green Oceans.” Green Oceans opposed the Revolution Wind project, which was halted on Friday over fake national security concerns by a convicted felon who is Constitutionally barred from holding office in the US, despite the project already being 80% finished, costing the US billions in waste and increased utility bills.
Mike Herr, a spokesman for Green Oceans said “these oft-repeated lies are designed to discredit the messenger while preventing the public from absorbing the substance of our valid and well-researched concerns,” which is itself an example of the very thing he’s wrongly accusing the researchers of.
Herr’s organizationlies about offshore wind, and their attack on science (through their law firm) is designed to discredit the messenger while preventing the public from absorbing the substance of valid and well-researched concerns: the connection between fossil fuels, the republican party, and disinformation that keeps us from embracing superior forms of cheaper, cleaner energy like wind.
Marzulla Law is deeply tied to anti-wind networks, far-right and climate denial foundations, and oil companies
Discrediting science and knowledge is increasingly becoming a feature of the American right wing, which is currently on a crusade against universities as it tries to make America stupider.
Roberts called Marzulla’s response “strategic harassment to shut me up and waste my time and make me more cautious,” which is a common reaction faced by truth-tellers in this day and age, particularly when funding from the largest and most deadly industry on the planet, which has repeatedly shown its interest in propaganda, is involved.
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Everything wrong with the USA right now is because Trump has made lying acceptable. Imagine if USA believed in the Truth. All these law companies and Fossil Fuels companies would be prosecuted.
For its part, Brown University did not comment on Marzulla’s demands, but did state that “Scholars shape their own research and course of instruction at Brown. One principle that is core to research at Brown is the ability for scholars to discuss contested topics and themes and to have those topics openly debated.”
However, Brown is one of the universities which recently kowtowed to the idiotic demands of an inept moron, making its words about academic independence ring somewhat hollow. We’ll have to see if they step up to defend truth this time around, or bend the knee to one of the dumbest people on the planet once again, if it comes to that.
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[### Offshore wind fight lining lawyers' pockets
Saving Seafood
https://www.savingseafood.org › News › Law](https://www.savingseafood.org/news/law/offshore-wind-fight-lining-lawyers-pockets/)
Nov 7, 2025 — ... Marzulla Law, which was hired last year to fight the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of the US Wind project off Maryland's coast.Read more
Missing: MARZULA ATTORNEY
[### Vineyard Wind survives its years of legal drama. Trump's ...
Clark Mindock | Substack
https://www.landmark.earth › trump-offshore-wind-vin...](https://www.landmark.earth/p/trump-offshore-wind-vineyard-lawsuits-climate-change)
Dec 9, 2024 — Roger Marzulla, an attorney who represented fishing industry and business interests in litigation challenging the Vineyard Wind project, told ...Read more
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[### Meet the lawyers blocking offshore wind
Instagram · simonoxfphys
15.3K+ likes · 2 months ago](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQEdULCke8R/)
Working with many suspicious community groups to delay and even cancel offshore wind projects that they felt threatened by. They exposed this ...Read more
Missing: MARZULA ATTORNEY
[### RODA asks Supreme Court to hear Vineyard Wind case
National Fisherman
https://www.nationalfisherman.com › northeast › roda-a...](https://www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/roda-asks-supreme-court-to-hear-vineyard-wind-case)
Mar 11, 2025 — The case was brought March 5 on behalf of fishermen by attorneys Nancie G. Marzulla and Roger J. Marzulla of the Washington D.C. law firm ...Read more
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[### Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research ...
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2025/08/25 › climate › bro...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/climate/brown-university-offshore-wind-marzulla.html)
Aug 25, 2025 — Marzulla Law L.L.C. is representing several groups that are fighting offshore wind, including Green Oceans, a nonprofit organization that is ...Read more
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[### Law firm threatens Brown's funding over research about ...
The Brown Daily Herald
https://www.browndailyherald.com › article › 2025/09](https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/09/law-firm-threatens-browns-funding-over-research-about-anti-offshore-wind-groups)
Sep 14, 2025 — Representing local anti-offshore wind group Green Oceans, Marzulla Law sent a letter to the University demanding research by the Climate and ...Read more
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[### Case: Green Oceans v. US Department of the Interior
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
https://clearinghouse.net › case](https://clearinghouse.net/case/46981/)
This case challenges agency approval of two energy projects, South Fork Wind Project and Revolution Wind Project, that have purported detrimental ...Read more
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[### Green Oceans Asks Brown University to Retract Reports ...
ecoRI News
https://ecori.org › green-oceans-asks-brown-university-t...](https://ecori.org/green-oceans-asks-brown-university-to-retract-reports-about-anti-wind-organization/)
Aug 25, 2025 — PROVIDENCE — A law firm representing the anti-wind energy group Green Oceans sent a letter to Brown University earlier this month, ...Read more
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[### Green Oceans Files Motion for Summary Judgment to ...
Business Wire
https://www.businesswire.com › news › home › Green-O...](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250903221909/en/Green-Oceans-Files-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment-to-Vacate-Federal-Approvals-for-Revolution-Wind)
Sep 3, 2025 — Green Oceans' lawyer, Roger J. Marzulla, served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's Environment and Natural ...Read more
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[### Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University
Energy Connects
https://www.energyconnects.com › News › Renewables](https://www.energyconnects.com/news/renewables/2025/august/offshore-wind-opponents-target-work-of-brown-university-researcher/)
Aug 25, 2025 — The group sent the latest letter via Marzulla Law, dated Aug. 11, 2025. Green Oceans asked for “immediate corrective action by Brown ...Read more
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[### Meet the lawyers blocking offshore wind
Instagram · simonoxfphys
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{They've been objected to by a community group called green oceans* due to the potential disruption of marine habitats by the wind turbines and in ...Read more}:
Missing: MARZULA ATTORNEY
[### Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they ...
Electrek
https://electrek.co › 2025/08/25 › scientist-exposes-anti-...](https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/)
Aug 25, 2025 — Marzulla Law represented one of the disinformation groups which the CDL has highlighted before, the deceptively-named “Green Oceans.” Green ...Read more
Missing: MARZULA ATTORNEY
[### GREEN OCEANS v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ... CourtListener
https://www.courtlistener.com › docket › parties › green-...](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68164402/parties/green-oceans-v-united-states-department-of-the-interior/)
Jan 16, 2024 — ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED. Plaintiff. 226 OCEAN AVENUE MOONWATCH, LLC. Represented by. Roger Joseph Marzulla. (202) 822-6760. Fax: (202) 822-6774.Read more
[### Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University ...
Financial Post
https://financialpost.com › pmn › business-pmn › offsh...](https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/offshore-wind-opponents-target-work-of-brown-university-researcher)
Aug 25, 2025 — The group sent the latest letter via Marzulla Law, dated Aug. 11, 2025. Green Oceans asked for “immediate corrective action by Brown ...Read more
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