ELIZABETH A. CERCEO / NEW YORK TIMES – Earlier this summer, as my children splashed in the freakishly warm ocean waves by the beautiful Victorian seaside town of Cape May, N.J, angry protesters gathered a few towns away.

Over the past few months, hundreds of Jersey Shore residents have staged demonstrations opposing Ocean Wind 1, an offshore wind farm being developed by a subsidiary of Orsted, a Danish company …

Dr. Cerceo is an associate professor of medicine and the director of environmental health at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.