A federal lawsuit is set to be filed Wednesday against the first major offshore wind energy farms in the United States.
Massachusetts Residents against Turbines will file the suit in Boston.
The group says the wind farms are going to be operating in a hotspot for critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whales.
Vineyard Wind, south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, is the first and only project so far to gain full federal approval and expects to go online in 2023.
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