After nearly a decade of review, the Dept. of the Interior gave the go-ahead on April 28 for the nation’s first offshore wind farm—the $1 billion Cape Wind project, located off the coast of Nantucket. Construction on the project could begin as early as this year, says the project’s developer.
But the project is highly controversial, and a broad coalition of historic-preservation and environmental groups, along with Indian tribes, say they will file a lawsuit to attempt to block the project.