The state has set a goal of generating 100% of its power from clean sources by 2035.
Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentThree anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island.
Bruce Afran, an attorney for the groups, said the state's "approval flies in the face of the federal regulator's environmental impact statement that says the Atlantic Shores project will damage marine habitat, compress and harden the seafloor, damage marine communities, compromise migration corridors for endangered species, and cause commercial fishing stocks to decline.
"There ain't nothing grassroots about this effort," he said. "It's astroturf, seeded by the fossil fuel industry.""We have never taken one penny from any entity linked to the fossil fuel industry," he said. "Not one." He also noted that one of the owners of Atlantic Shores is an affiliate of Shell, the global oil and gas company.
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