Wind farms could join oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico
by Justine Calma from The Verge - All Posts on (#61MDH)
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: U.S. President Joe Biden points to a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting about the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Biden administration is eyeing chunks of the Gulf of Mexico as new areas to expand its growing offshore wind ambitions. Today, President Joe Biden proposed opening up 700,000 acres off the coasts of Galveston, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana to future wind development. The administration is now looking for public input on developing those locations, after its proposal today to make them official wind energy areas" where lease sales could be held in the future.
Building up an offshore wind energy industry in the US has been a big part of the Biden's administration's goals on climate change. There's very little of it right now - just two small wind farms operating off the coasts of Rhode Island and Virginia. The first...