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By Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. plans to advance new offshore wind lease areas and complete the review of at least 16 construction and operations plans by 2025, which could add as much as 19 GW of new electric generation, an Interior Department official said on Tuesday.
Amanda Lefton, director of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, told the Reuters U.S.Offshore Wind conference that the steps taken by the Biden administration over the last few months will catalyze the U.S. offshore wind industry.
“The action to date that the Biden-Harris administration has taken really demonstrates a sea change for offshore wind, representing a government-wide approach which will catalyze the industry,” he said.
By Valerie Volcovici and Nichola Groom
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES, May 25 (Reuters) - The Biden administration will seek to approve more than a dozen offshore wind projects in the next four years and open the Pacific Ocean off California to such development as it seeks to bolster the nascent U.S. industry, officials said on Tuesday.
The effort is part of the administration s broader plan to fight climate change by decarbonizing the U.S. power sector by 2035 and the entire economy by 2050.
Amanda Lefton, director of the Interior Department s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, told the Reuters U.S. Offshore Wind conference that the agency would complete the review of at least 16 new offshore wind project plans by 2025.
Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. May 25, 2021
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The Biden administration will seek to approve more than a dozen offshore wind projects in the next four years and open new areas for leasing off the coast of California as it seeks to supercharge development of the nascent U.S. industry, an Interior Department official said on Tuesday.
The effort is part of the administration’s broader plan to fight climate change by decarbonizing the U.S. power sector by 2035 and the entire economy by 2050.
Amanda Lefton, director of Interior s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, told the Reuters U.S. Offshore Wind conference that the agency would complete the review at least 16 new offshore wind project plans by 2025.
Oil boom in New Mexico could stick taxpayers with cleanup costs -study Reuters 3 hrs ago
By Nichola Groom
May 20 (Reuters) - Drillers in New Mexico have set aside only a tiny fraction of the money they will eventually need to clean up their wells, pipelines and other infrastructure in the state, leaving taxpayers at risk of footing some of the balance, according to a study published on Thursday.
Concerns are growing about who will pay for the environmental impact of more than a century of oil and gas production in the United States. The issue is front and center in New Mexico, which has rapidly grown into the nation s third-largest oil producer.