2ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. – There’s some bad news for the Jersey Shore today as a progressive judge in Massachusetts just delivered a blow to President Trump’s offshore wind moratorium that had put the brakes on New Jersey’s massive offshore wind farms.

The federal judge who was recommended by former Senator Barack Obama and appointed by former President Bill Clinton on Monday struck down the Trump administration’s yearlong suspension of wind energy permitting, ruling that the pause on all new wind project authorizations was arbitrary, unlawful, and exceeded the government’s authority under federal law.

U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris vacated the policy—known as the “Wind Order”—which had halted all new permits and leases for onshore and offshore wind projects nationwide since January, fol

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