Save Long Beach Island, Defend Brigantine Beach and Protect Our Coast NJ filed suit in appellate court on April 26 challenging a determination by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that the Atlantic Shores wind farm project meets the requirements of a federal coastal protection law.Atlantic Shores is one of three proposed wind farms off New Jersey's coast that have preliminary approval.
But Joshua Henne, a political strategist advising several groups fighting climate change, accused the anti-wind groups of acting in league with the fossil fuel industry."There ain’t nothing grassroots about this effort," he said. "It's astroturf, seeded by the fossil fuel industry."Robin Shaffer, president of Protect Our Coast, rejected that claim."We have never taken one penny from any entity linked to the fossil fuel industry," he said. "Not one.
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