Climate Central: Wind turbines could be twirling off the coast of Long Island and New York City sometime in the next few years now that the Obama administration has set aside a new offshore wind farm development area.
The U.S. Department of Interior has created an 81,130 acre “wind energy area” in the open Atlantic about 11 miles south of Long Island. The move is part of the Obama administration’s efforts to address climate change, in part by leasing federally-controlled waters off the East Coast for offshore wind power development.
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