{"id":86402,"date":"2024-09-22T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/?p=86402"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:05:48","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-environmental-hero-to-outcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/22092024\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-environmental-hero-to-outcast\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.\u2019s \u2018Sad\u2019 Slide From Environmental Hero to Outcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the early 2000s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then a prominent environmental attorney who had recently been named one of Time<\/em> magazine\u2019s \u201cHeroes for the Planet,\u201d played a leading role in killing an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound not far from his family\u2019s Cape Cod estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project proponents say the fierce opposition by Kennedy, a presidential candidate who recently suspended his campaign but remains on the ballot in nearly three dozen states, had a long-lasting impact on the U.S. offshore wind industry and laid the seeds for opposition that continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt set back offshore wind over 20 years in the United States,\u201d said Jim Gordon, the former CEO of Cape Wind, the company that tried to build the Nantucket Sound project. Gordon said Kennedy was often the loudest, most combative voice of the well-funded opposition. \u201cYou have to understand that they created such a brouhaha and so much fear over the technology and the impacts, which have proven to be unfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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