Food & Water Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Food and Water Watch, Inc. (“FWW”), a non-profit public interest consumer organization, 1 has moved for a preliminary injunction ordering the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps” or “USACOE”) to revoke a permit that it issued to the Massachusetts Biological Laboratory (“MBL”), which has intervened in the action. The permit authorizes MBL, as part of a federally-funded aquaculture research project, to install a fish containment structure, known as an Aquadome ™, on the seafloor of Buzzards Bay near the Weepeket…