Wind Power, Key to Democrats’ Climate-Change Goals, Faces a Crisis

PATRICK McGEEHAN / NEW YORK TIMES – Before the end of this year, thousands of families in New York could be using electricity produced by a wind farm off the eastern tip of Long Island that will be the state’s first.

But will it also be the last?

Instead of gathering momentum as the long-promised benefits of offshore wind farms are about to be realized, the industry is now mired in an existential crisis …