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From pot-bellied pigs to crematoriums: All RI's land-use cases end up in front of this judge

What do pot-bellied pigs, propane, a new hotel and a crematorium have in common? They are all cases in RI's new land-use court.

Activity underway by friends and foes of offshore wind projects

Government supporters of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey and New York are trading blows with opponents in some shore towns who say many vacationers and local residents don't want to see turbines filling the ocean horizon.

Activity underway by friends and foes of offshore wind projects

Windstorm brewing off N.Y., N.J. | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Arkansas' Best News Source

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Government supporters of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey and New York are trading blows with opponents in some shore towns who say many vacationers and local residents don't want to see turbines filling the ocean horizon.

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'Environmental Pollutant'—How a Key Climate Agenda Tool Harms Endangered Species

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WindAction | Activists seek lockdown on New England wind project

A Rhode Island-based environmental group asked a federal court to freeze work on the Revolution Wind project, saying the plans require a new biological opinion on potential effects on endangered sei and fin whales. Green Oceans filed its original lawsuit in January challenging the southern New England offshore wind project.  On April 18 the group’s lawyers were back at U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s court in Washington, D.C., with a motion to stay all permits and approvals for the project.

WindAction | Gusts of activity underway by friends and foes of offshore wind energy projects

Shore towns spanning much of New Jersey's 127-mile coastline wrote to the state's Board of Public Utilities, saying the proposed Atlantic Shores wind farm will be costlier than originally proposed, particularly if the developers are allowed to re-bid it. An economic analysis sent by Long Beach Township, Beach Haven, Ship Bottom, Barnegat Light, Surf City, Harvey Cedars, Brigantine and Ventnor predicts reduced visitation to the Jersey Shore by people who don't want to see windmills on the horizon could cost Ocean County alone more than $668 million in economic losses.