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File photo: Aug. 15, 2016, a lift boat, right, that serves as a work platform, assembles a wind turbine off Block Island, Rhode Island.
More than 100 elected New Jersey officials issued a statement Tuesday in support of the state’s budding offshore-wind industry as opponents renewed their attacks on plans to build hundreds of wind turbines along the Shore.
The group of 110 officials was brought together by the New Jersey chapter of Elected Officials to Protect America, a bipartisan climate-action organization that backs offshore wind power as a major source of carbon-emissions-free electricity.
The group argues that by producing electricity without burning fossil fuels such as natural gas or coal, New Jersey will be doing its part to cut emissions that are driving climate change while contributing to sea-level rise that is forecast to permanently flood large areas of the Shore by the end of the century.
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