Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island.
Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City. N.J., on Nov. 3, 2023. On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, New Jersey utility regulators opened a fourth round of solicitations for new offshore wind farm proposals to join the three that already have preliminary approval. Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City. N.J., on Nov. 3, 2023.
Bruce Afran, an attorney for the groups, said the state’s “approval flies in the face of the federal regulator’s environmental impact statement that says the Atlantic Shores project will damage marine habitat, compress and harden the seafloor, damage marine communities, compromise migration corridors for endangered species, and cause commercial fishing stocks to decline.
“There ain’t nothing grassroots about this effort,” he said. “It’s astroturf, seeded by the fossil fuel industry.”“We have never taken one penny from any entity linked to the fossil fuel industry,” he said. “Not one.”
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