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New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, Ørsted’s 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind, is generating hopes for the future as well as worries about the potential impact on the environment, fishing and tourism. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has reactions from the public who weighed in Tuesday at the first of three public hearings.

The White House on Monday designated a portion of the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey and New York as a “wind energy area,” assuring hundreds of wind turbines will be coming this decade. Here’s what it really means.

American offshore wind farms, of which there are 17 in the works for the Atlantic Ocean, are no longer far off on the horizon. The overall magnitude of this emerging renewable energy industry is starting to take shape.

The first wave of offshore wind farms are being considered for the Mid-Atlantic between North Carolina and Massachusetts. Advocates are pushing for hundreds of the nearly Eiffel Tower-sized turbines by 2030. Here’s why they are considered key to America’s energy future.

Atlantic Shores, one of two developers with federal leases for offshore wind developments along the New Jersey coast, came to an agreement with local unions that could create “hundreds and hundreds” of clean energy jobs in the next decade.

The musk ox survived two ice ages and came back from near extinction. But their greatest threat to date might come from the unstable temperatures of climate change. Today, a musk ox farm in Alaska is working to preserve these ice age throwbacks.

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Atlantic Shores, a joint venture between a European clean energy company and a subsidiary of Shell, is bidding for New Jersey’s second off-shore wind farm.