"The Trump administration is revoking approval for millions of acres of ocean to be set aside for offshore wind development amid an escalating attack on the renewable power source."
"The Trump administration is revoking approval for millions of acres of ocean to be set aside for offshore wind development amid an escalating attack on the renewable power source.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday it was rescinding huge swaths of ocean in the US Outer Continental Shelf initially set aside for the fast-tracking of offshore wind projects by the administration of former President Barack Obama, and expanded by former President Joe Biden.
The move applies to more than 3.5 million acres of federal waters across the Gulf of America, Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, California, Oregon, and the Central Atlantic.
A day earlier, the Interior Department said it was considering halting all wind development on federal lands and in federal waters amid a broader review of the energy source derided by President Donald Trump as unreliable. Since Trump’s re-election, BloombergNEF’s forecast for new offshore wind developments has fallen by 56%."
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