Trump EPA saves the whales (and consumers) by nixing NJ offshore wind farm | Eastern NC Now

Offshore wind farms are one of the biggest threats to the critically endangered Atlantic Right Whale.  They are also a threat to the livlihood of commercial fishermen and to coastal tourism.  Offshore wind turbines are one of the most expensive ways to make electricity and raise electric rates substantially to consumers.  Making electricity with offshore wind turbines is generally four times as expensive as conventional sources.  Thus there were many groups cheering when the Trump EPA blocked the permit for New Jersey's massive Atlantic Shores planned offshore wind farm.

A full permit was issued late in the Biden administration for the project, but at the request of the Trump EPA, a federal environmental appeals judge invalidated it and returned it to the EPA for further evaluation.  There is little doubt that EPA will now fully kill it.  Two community organizations and an environmental group were suing to stop the project.

Offshore wind projects divide environmentalists.  On one hand, the CO2 climate crusaders with their tunnel vision obsession with CO2 are fully in support of the Climate Industrial Complex industrializing our oceans with wind turbines.  On the other, traditional environmentalists, concerned with wildlife habitat, saving wildlife, and maintaining a natural environment, are fiercely opposed to them.

https://ijr.com/trump-epa-pulls-massive-offshore-wind-boondoggle-permit/

The Democrat in Raleigh have been pushed hard to foist this offshore wind boondoggle and environmental threat in our own state waters.