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Washington, D.C. based Marzulla Law Firm and attorney Anthony Bocchi of the law firm of Cullen – Dykman join former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Michael J. Donohue and the law office of Cultural Heritage Partners in the county's attempts to halt offshore wind development, according to a county news release.
While Ocean City fights to stop Ocean Wind 1 from using its beaches and streets for transmission lines, Cape May County has hired a pair of attorneys to battle wind farms planned off the coast. Simultaneously, three citizens groups have filed suit in Superior Court against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection and the company behind the first of multiple wind projects proposed off New Jersey. Ocean Wind 1, a project by by Danish company Ørsted, could get federal approval as early as this summer for a wind farm 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties that would feature as many as 98 massive wind turbines capable of generating 1,100 megawatts of power.