The environmental and cultural heritage nonprofits sued the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday, alleging the agency violated the National Environment Policy Act when it allowed Spacex to launch the largest rocket ever built from its Boca Chica, Texas, facility without a comprehensive environmental review. The lawsuit argues the agency should have conducted an in-depth environmental impact statement before ever allowing SpaceX to move ahead with its Starship Super Heavy plans in Boca Chica. However, the agency settled on using a considerably less thorough analysis, which enabled SpaceX to launch sooner. The exact impact of the launch on the people, habitat and wildlife is still being evaluated by federal and state agencies, and other environmental researchers, alongside and independently from SpaceX.

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