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RFK Jr.’s ‘Sad’ Slide From Environmental Hero to Outcast

Inside Climate News · By Phil McKenna · last updated
Opposition to offshore wind by the third-party presidential candidate turned Trump supporter began decades ago in the waters off Cape Cod.

By Phil McKenna

In the early 2000s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then a prominent environmental attorney who had recently been named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet,” played a leading role in killing an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound not far from his family’s Cape Cod estate.

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