Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, at the direction of U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, issued a stop-work order for the Empire Offshore Wind project.
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
On behalf of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), our partners, and the members and supporters they represent, we are writing to express our strong support for issuing the Air Quality Permits to Construct for US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project. These permits are a critical and responsible step in Maryland’s clean energy transition, ensuring that offshore wind development moves forward while maintaining air quality safeguards. You can read our recommendations to the Maryland Department of Environment in the comments linked below.
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
In these comments, BGA writes a notice of intent to BOEM to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Vineyard Mid-Atlantic project offshore New York. On behalf of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), our partners, and the millions of members and supporters they represent, we thank you for the opportunity to comment on the notice…
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
We thank the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the opportunity to comment on the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for California offshore wind. We appreciate BOEM’s draft PEIS analyzing the potential impacts of offshore wind energy development in the five lease areas off California’s coast. The final sale notice for these areas included lease stipulations designed to promote the development of a robust domestic supply chain, advance flexibility in transmission planning, and create good paying, union jobs. BGA urges BOEM to include more robust stipulations and bidding credits in its future leases and consider our recommendations in this letter.
Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy
January 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump yesterday ordered a freeze on new federal wind leasing in the Offshore Continental Shelf and a pause on approval and permitting for existing federal wind leases. The order charges the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency with completing an assessment…
Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the approval of the SouthCoast Wind Project. The final Environmental Impact Statement for the project was released on November 8, 2024, after BOEM gathered input from interested stakeholders.
Press Releases & Statements / Onshore Clean Energy
The U.S. Department of Treasury announced its final rule for the Section 48 Investment Tax Credit. Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, the tax credit invests in renewable energy projects across several sectors including solar, geothermal, on- and offshore wind, energy storage, and more.
Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) today held an offshore wind lease auction on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Maine. The lease areas sold include four locations off the coasts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. These areas have the potential to power more than 2.3 million homes.
Press Releases & Statements / Onshore Clean Energy
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announcedinvestments from the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act to lower energy costs and grow clean power across nine states. The $3 billion funding from the New Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program will go to rural energy cooperatives in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Minnesota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
We welcome responsible development of offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico and are supportive of U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) leasing Wind Energy Area (WEA) options C and D, as described in the public notice. Whatever leasing path BOEM pursues must meet high labor and environmental standards. This includes bid credits or lease stipulations related to workforce development, supply chain plans, project labor agreements (PLAs), and environmental mitigation and monitoring, in addition to other criteria laid out in this comment. You can read our recommendations to BOEM in these comments.
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
We are encouraged by the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to hold a lease sale in the Central Atlantic in 2025. The states in this region will require more offshore wind leasing to meet their clean energy goals and we are happy to see this next step towards identifying new wind energy areas. States like Maryland are poised to be an offshore wind supply chain hub and more leases will help support the growing offshore wind industry and the resulting job creation in the region. As U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) considers the future lease areas in the central Atlantic, many factors should be considered, including creating high-quality, union jobs; training and employment benefits; domestic supply chains; ensuring environmental justice; and environmental protection. You can read our recommendations to BOEM in these comments.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Offshore Clean Energy
The offshore wind industry in the United States can become a model for building the clean energy economy the right way. Read our fact sheet on how offshore wind is a win for workers and a win for our environment.