A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs

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By Katelyn WeisbrodMay 9, 2021, 5:00 am847 ptsInterestingTop
Residents of Sunset Park, a largely immigrant, working-class community, hope the project will bring high-paying jobs to an economically-stressed neighborhood. By Nicholas Kusnetz When Aroldo Garcia learned that the operations base for a major offshore wind project was coming to his Brooklyn neighborhood, he…

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