Amid pressure to retract his research, a Brown University professor says it’s important to ‘be brave’

An environmental studies professor at Brown University is at the center of a fight that he says underscores the politics of wind energy.

J. Timmons Roberts and the Climate and Development Lab at Brown he leads published work documenting the connections between the fossil fuel industry and groups opposed to offshore wind farms. Now, a law firm representing opponents of wind power is demanding that Brown retract his findings, according to the New York Times . The request comes after the Trump administration dealt a blow to local wind energy production, halting construction of the Revolution Wind wind farm off the Rhode Island coast.

Roberts spoke with Morning Host Luis Hernandez about his research and his response to the letter from Marzulla Law L.L.C.

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