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The controversial Cape Wind offshore wind project off Massachusetts' Cape Cod secures a power purchase agreement with utility National Grid for half of its electricity. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

(AP) — After eight years of review, the future of a controversial wind farm off Cape Cod now rests in what would seem to be friendly hands — an Obama administration that's pledged to make the U.S.