Concerns about endangered whale population threaten Biden-approved New Jersey offshore wind project

Published October 1, 2024 5:29pm ET



The Biden administration gave the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project final approval on Tuesday, but opponents of the project have threatened to file a lawsuit to block its construction.

Save Long Beach Island claims that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration downplayed the impact of wind turbines’ operation noise on endangered whale populations. Save LBI also accuses the agencies of failing to address how all of the proposed New Jersey offshore wind projects will affect North Atlantic right whales’ migration pattern.

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