In 2025, bipartisan policies had offered US states practical ways to accelerate clean energy deployment, modernize the grid, and ease pressure on rising energy costs. At the core of these state efforts were goals to reduce emissions, in keeping with projections out to 2030 and even 2050. It’s been clear … [continued]
Amid Soaring Energy & Gas Prices, Trump Admin Draws Far Fewer Bids Than Dec. Sale NEW ORLEANS — Gulf and environmental groups responded to the Trump administration’s latest large-scale sell-off of public waters to the oil-and-gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico today. The Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management … [continued]
A dumbo octopus swimming in the Atlantis II Seamount Complex, a group of underwater mountains in the North Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States | Credit:NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts 2014
This would destroy deep-sea habitats and the ecosystems they support. By Rebecca Loomis, Staff Attorney, Nature, NRDC The Trump administration is supporting a new and highly destructive deep-sea mining (DSM) industry in our ocean, despite immense environmental risks and broad international opposition. Early in his second term, President Trump issued … [continued]
The gigantic, 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project can resume construction, handing yet another loss to US President Donald Trump (cropped, courtesy of CVOW).
Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes, and US President Donald Trump is desperate to avoid losing. But, losing he is. Take his ferocious, no-holds-barred attack on the thousands of workers employed by the US offshore wind industry. While successfully obliterating many wind jobs during the course … [continued]
US President Donald Trump struck a mighty blow against offshore wind workers on December 22, when he ordered work to halt on five major offshore wind projects spanning five states along the Atlantic Coast, throwing hundreds of households into the unemployment lines. Or not, as the case may be. On … [continued]
Work on the new Connecticut-Rhode Island Revolution Wind offshore wind project has been stopped by order of the Interior Department (courtesy of Orsted).
The Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted is suing to lift the stop-work order against its 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project, located off the coast of Rhode Island.
Work on the new Connecticut-Rhode Island Revolution Wind offshore wind project has been stopped by order of the Interior Department (courtesy of Orsted).
Work on the Revolution Wind offshore wind project will stop until the US Department of the Interior resolves a mysterious national security concern of one sort or another.
The massive, 2-gigawatt Maryland Offshore Wind project is still alive and kicking, though new pitfalls have arisen (courtesy of US Wind).
The massive, 2-gigawatt Maryland Offshore Wind project is still alive and kicking, though new pitfalls have arisen.
The US offshore wind developer Atlantic Shores is still determined to move forward with plans for two projects in federal waters off the coast of New Jersey, Trump or no Trump.
The US offshore wind developer Atlantic Shores is still determined to move forward with plans for two projects in federal waters off the coast of New Jersey, Trump or no Trump.
Roadmap shows phased and flexible coastal and offshore transmission build out will maximize economic benefits, enhance grid reliability, and minimize environmental impact. Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO), in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), released … [continued]
