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A Just Transition? On Brooklyn's Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs


A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project and Jobs
Residents of Sunset Park, a largely immigrant, working-class community, hope the project will bring high-paying jobs to an economically-stressed neighborhood.
May 9, 2021
Aroldo Garcia discusses a major offshore wind development coming to Brooklyn with Summer Sandoval, a campaigner with the environmental justice group UPROSE. The project could bring more than 1,000 jobs to a site in Brooklyn s Sunset Park. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz
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When Aroldo Garcia learned that the operations base for a major offshore wind project was coming to his Brooklyn neighborhood, he thought about the jobs it could provide for his family members and friends who worked as handymen and contractors, and for others who didn’t have work at all.  ....

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What New York's Offshore Wind Expansion Could Mean For Your Electricity Bill, Curbing Emissions, And Your Health


What New York’s Offshore Wind Expansion Could Mean For Your Electricity Bill, Curbing Emissions, And Your Health
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Three wind turbines off Block Island in Rhode Island on August 15th, 2016. President Joe Biden wants to expand wind energy off the shores of New Jersey and New York.
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New York is on track to become a centerpiece for the nation’s offshore wind industry after President Joe Biden announced last week that the waters off the coast of Long Island and New Jersey the New York Bight would be a designated wind energy area.
The president’s commitment, in which the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sets aside more areas of the ocean to lease for offshore wind development, effectively makes it possible for New York to achieve its climate action goals, which the state codified two years ago in landmark legislation. By 2035, the state aims to produce 9 gigawatts of offshore wind energy ....

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Mercury’s lobbying and public affairs firm, which is headed by Michael McKeon, boasts more than 30 media relations professionals in its New York office. The growing media relations team is led by former Bloomberg spokesperson John Gallagher, managing director and former National Action Network communications lead Rachel Noerdlinger, former Fox News producer Dan Bank and former Associated Press chief White House correspondent Ben Feller. Mercury, which represents a wide variety of clients, has a national presence that is bolstered by former New York Post reporter Stefan Friedman, who leads the media relations practice on the West Coast.
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