When Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced his approval of the Cape Wind Project, advocates hailed it an important first-step in the nation's pursuit of the bounty offshore wind energy. On the other hand, opponents promised to challenge the decision in court as violating environmental laws-even going so far as to threaten the constitutionality of the Massachusetts statute requiring the purchase of renewable energy within the state. Thus the battle lines have been drawn, bringing the decade long fight over the project to a different battlefield: the judicial courts.
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