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Massachusetts legislators have passed two different plans to expand offshore wind power.

Eversource, the largest energy provider in New England, initiated a review Wednesday of its offshore wind ventures, which may result in the company pulling out of a project which had been touted by the Biden administration.

Dominion Energy's Virginia Clean Energy Act compliance plan is misleading, not backed by sound engineering or a transparent assessment of costs.

The nation’s largest proposed offshore wind-power facility is already encountering rough seas, with its developer acknowledging it will cost at least $2 billion more than originally estimated.

Citizens of coastal communities are organizing in an effort to block large scale offshore wind projects being pushed by the Biden administration off the United States coast, arguing they are economically inefficient and harm the environment.

The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has started the permitting process for the first stage of the proposed Kitty Hawk wind project off the coast of North Carolina.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation permanently banning offshore wind turbines within Maine’s 3-mile-limit for the offshore waters under the state’s legal jurisdiction.

Bipartisan federal legislation introduced in June proposes sharing a portion of any revenues generated by offshore wind industrial facilities erected in federal waters with coastal states impacted by the projects.

The administration of President Joe Biden announced final approval for the Vineyard Wind project, which plans to install up to 84 giant turbines about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a project that will devastate the fisheries, according to the fishing industry.

Despite a state mandate requiring 100 percent of Hawai’i’s electricity come from renewables by 2045, many Hawai’ian environmental activists are fighting proposed onshore and offshore industrial wind projects.