From NJ Spotlight
Groups that have been at the forefront of the effort to halt plans for hundreds of electricity-generating wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean have taken their campaign to court.
- The groups — Save LBI, Defend Brigantine Beach and Protect Our Coast NJ — say state officials ignored evidence the massive structures will harm the offshore environment in their approvals.
- The legal action — naming the state Department of Environmental Protection and company developing the offshore wind project — was filed with the state Appellate Division, the normal venue for challenging the decision of a state agency.
- A lawsuit filed by wind-power opponents was rejected by a federal judge earlier this year.
- Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4) said that the Government Accountability Office told him it had agreed to investigate the potential role preliminary work on the offshore wind project might be playing in numerous marine mammal deaths.
- See NJ Spotlight News for a video report.
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