Environmentalists Seek More Time to Review ‘Reckless’ Offshore Wind Development

‘Where was the public’s role in deciding that the ocean was just going to become a giant power plant?’ asks Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action

View of the Jersey Shore from the New York/New Jersey Bight on Sept. 6, 2023. Richard Moore/The Epoch Times

Environmental groups are asking for a 90-day extension for public comments on an environmental review of the combined effect of six offshore wind farm leases sold by the Biden-Harris administration in February 2022.

Six companies paid a record $4.37 billion to build the wind farms over 488,000 acres of ocean in the New York Bight, a geological indentation on the eastern coast of the United States between New Jersey and New York.