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E&E News
3 days ago
- Business
- E&E News
Wind opponents sue to stop Empire project
A coalition of fishermen and offshore wind opponents sued the Trump administration Tuesday in an attempt to stop construction of Empire Wind 1. The lawsuit seeks to reinstate a stop work order issued by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in April and comes just as the 54-turbine project under development south of Long Island prepares to commence foundation installation. Protect Our Coast New Jersey, Clean Ocean Action, ACK for Whales and a dozen fishing companies claim Burgum failed to adhere to the Administrative Procedure Act when he lifted the stop work order in May. The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court District for New Jersey, argues federal regulators illegally approved the project's permit and that it will permanently damage fisheries and the marine environment. Advertisement The lawsuit scrambles traditional political alliances around offshore wind. Wind opponents sought to walk a fine line in a press release announcing the suit, praising President Donald Trump's longtime opposition to offshore wind even as they challenged his administration's decision to allow Empire Wind 1 to move forward.
Miami Herald
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Why I don't really care about the climate
I try to be a thoughtful guy. Before I make up my mind, I try to look at all the evidence. I read and talk to people with different perspectives and values than mine. But on one subject, as the evidence piles up to make a more and more solid case, I can't seem to get myself to change. I know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular New York progressive, is right when she says, 'We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death.' Elon Musk, the unpopular Trump acolyte, spoke for science when he said, 'We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.' Al Gore, an almost president who has been at this the longest, is not wrong when he says, 'In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.' I think it is probably true we are all going to be killed in an environmental catastrophe as the planet burns. But — and here is where I get lost — the world-burning, humanociding, planet-killing catastrophe isn't big enough to get AOC's buddy Bernie Sanders out of a private plane, the most carbon-intensive way man has invented to travel. Climate change is important, it seems, but not important enough for him to change. That's garden-variety hypocrisy. All movements harbor plenty, but there's something worse. A $1.6 billion, Obama-funded solar power plant in California is on the road to closure, in part because of environmental opposition to the death toll it has caused among tortoises and birdies. Climate change is important, but not important enough for the Sierra Club to overlook its other priorities, like tortoises and birdies. Environmental opposition has slowed or stopped solar power development all over the country. A wind-power plant in New Jersey would help push humanity back from the brink of extinction, but that's not enough for Clean Ocean Action, which is among groups suing to stop it. We'll all be dead, but the sardine population will have clean water. Environmental opposition has slowed or stopped solar power development all over the country, heck, all over the world. Then there's my favorite. Nuclear power is among the most abundant climate friendly sources of electric power we have, but we're shutting them down all over the world due to age, green-movement opposition or other left-wing activism while little gets done to replace them. It is important to, you know, not have life as we know it end, but not important enough to keep our nuclear plants operating. Even when the most environmentally conscious among us, like Californians, come up with solutions to climate change and start implementing them, they choose solutions that are slower and more expensive than they need to be. Just compare wind and solar power in California (state mandated and subsidized) with wind and solar power in Texas where the government doesn't give two figs about climate change: Texas has twice as much generating capacity and is installing new power plants faster. Please explain to me why a state whose political leaders don't care build solutions to climate change faster than those who do care? I'll wait. Anyway, here's the deal, when the people who tell me that my children are going to die if we don't do something about impending climate change doom start acting like their children are going to die if we don't do something about impending climate change doom, then I'll change my mind. Until then, I am with Texas. Acting like you don't care seems to be the best way to show you care anyway.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Trash cleared from N.J. beaches includes vampire teeth, bathroom sink
April 9 (UPI) -- A New Jersey group said its 2024 beach clean-up operations resulted in 276,899 pieces of trash being cleaned up, including unusual items like a rubber foot, a full can of ravioli and a set of vampire teeth. Clean Ocean Action released its 2024 Beach Sweeps report, offering insight into the group's numerous beach clean-up events last year. The "Dirty Dozen," the 12 most commonly-found items on beaches, included plastic bottle caps, food and candy wrappers, straws, plastic bottles, cigarette filters, plastic cap rings, cigar tips, metal drink cans, packing foam, paper pieces and assorted pieces of plastic. Some of the more unique items included a set of vampire teeth, a rubber foot, an unopened can of ravioli, a punching bag, a full container of Wawa brand sausage and eggs, a gallon of maple syrup, an Invisalign retainer, a message in a liquor bottle, a Victoria's Secret bra, a jar of marijuana, an inflatable hot tub, a bedpan, multiple uncooked hams, a boat cabin door and a bathroom sink. Clean Ocean Action said this year's Beach Sweeps will kick off April 12.
