Environmental groups are asking for a 90-day extension to the public comment phase of a $4 billion offshore energy lease sale so they can examine details of what the Biden-Harris administration agreed to in February 2022.
Six companies paid billions to build 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.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) just released a 1,429-page analysis of environmental impacts that could be caused by the six wind farms and gave the public 45 days to comment in the Federal Register. The deadline is Feb. 26....
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