This just in: the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has weighed in on Cape Wind’s Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), saying that it “adequately and properly complies” with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act. The project can now advance to the state permitting process. I believe it is the first U.S. offshore wind project to have a certified final environmental impact document.
Erik Hoffner works for Orion magazine and is also a freelance photographer and writer whose recent investigative report for Yale Environment 360 on unsustainable logging in Sweden was picked up by National Geographic News Watch. See images from Sweden and links to those stories here.