New Jersey Groups Employ Innovative Legal Strategies to Block Ocean Wind Farms

Environmental advocates say court challenges prepared for the abandoned Orsted project are ready for the next fight—Atlantic Shores.

Bob Stern, a retired Department of Energy analyst and the president of Save Long Beach Island, on Sept. 6, 2023. Richard Moore/The Epoch Times

Seaside community groups in New Jersey banded together to challenge environmental approvals and financial subsidies for the Ocean Wind 1 project—a wind farm proposed for off the Jersey Shore.

Although the project’s developer, Danish energy giant Orsted, abandoned the project on Nov. 1, the environmental advocates say the threat isn’t over, and they’re preparing to fight again.