Two federal agencies and both wind energy companies with lease areas off the coast of the Jersey Shore want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit looking to block offshore surveying in the New Jersey and New York bights.

On Aug. 1, the U.S. Department of Commerce and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, along with Ørsted and Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, filed their motion to dismiss, as well as oppose, Save LBI’s request for preliminary injunctive relief.