Gov. Tina Kotek calls for transparency from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is identifying the sites may be best to build floating wind farms within two "call areas" covering 1,811 square miles of ocean near Coos Bay and Brookings.
Joe Biden attended mass in Delaware on Sunday, and then spent two hours on Rehoboth Beach. Asked as he left about the Hawaii wildfires, the president replied: No comment.
Days after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century ignited in West Maui, killing dozens and leveling more than 2,200 buildings, increasingly frustrated residents said that they were receiving far more help from an ad hoc network of volunteers than they were from the government.
President Joe Biden jets off to ritzy Lake Tahoe on Friday for another summer vacation and was silent on wildfires in Hawaii upon returning to White House after weekend at the beach.