Energy

A Louisiana wildlife preserve that is eroding due to oil pipelines is asking BP, Chevron and others to restore the land and get their pipelines off it.

After weeks of uncertainty and likely project cancellations due to the effect of inflation on earlier contracts, New York State has reaffirmed its commitment to offshore wind with the largest state-level investment in renewable energy in US history

In 2009 I started working on ocean planning with a group of dedicated ocean planning experts at the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) at University of Rhode Island. I was representing local saltwater anglers and giving input regarding how we use coastal waters for fishing.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is rolling out designated offshore wind leasing areas off the lower 48 states at a rapid clip, racing to meet the Biden administration's target of 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2030. For the latest - a 3.5 million acre parcel in the Gulf of Maine - it has decided to dodge a looming fight with fishing and environmental interests.

Every energy company, it seems, wants to get into the act to advance carbon capture for their natural gas and oil operations, as well as their petrochemical facilities. Dozens of U.S. projects are on the design table, but many remain in limbo, as investors await clarity about permitting, financing and tax breaks.

Offshore wind power could help power Louisiana economy

Lawsuit seeking to reinstate Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leases argues that the Biden administration put politics over legal mandates

Cape May County filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against multiple federal agencies and their leaders, alleging that federal regulators have abandoned their obligation to protect the environment and Atlantic coastal marine life in favor of an “inappropriate collusion” with the developer of a proposed offshore wind energy farm.

Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has rejected another challenge to federal permits and approvals for the Vineyard Wind Project (Vineyard Wind or the Project). Vineyard Wind is under construction off the coast of Massachusetts and will be the first modern utility-scale offshore wind energy project in the United States.

Massive ocean wind farms off Morro Bay and Santa Barbara County face a turbulent path.

The governor signed 75% of the major environmental bills that lawmakers sent to his desk. As for vetoes, Newsom cited enforcement, cost concerns.

Brittany Ferries’ newest addition to the fleet, the Saint-Malo, took to the water for the first time on October 1, the ferry company revealed.

Rhode Island is moving forward with the state’s largest renewable energy solicitation after announcing it would form a three-state partnership with Connecticut and Massachusetts to review and coordinate a regional approach to offshore renewable energy.

The first of Vineyard Wind's 62 turbines has been assembled in the waters southwest of Nantucket.

In 1605, the intrepid Don Quixote came upon looming, hostile giants in the countryside. Trusted friend Sancho Panza tried to dissuade the hero from tilting against them.

The world’s largest offshore wind farm, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in UK waters, has achieved first power and started sending electricity to the UK national grid, the developers of the project said on Tuesday, hailing the major milestone at the offshore wind farm whose construction continues.

There’s a lot happening in the offshore wind world right now, especially in the Northeast. And depending on what articles you read, the industry is booming or teetering on financial failure.

A DeSmog review of 12 large-scale projects reveals a litany of cost-overruns and missed targets, with a net increase in emissions.

There's plenty of fallout from the Biden administration's plan to greatly slow offshore oil and gas leasing.

South Carolina’s growing clean energy economy continues to make news. Following years of jobs and economic development announcements, our state is supplying the world with local products that are critical to expanding clean energy.

Cargill’s recent trial of sea freight wind power signals a cleaner future for the sea shipping industry, but what are the cleaner-fuel options today?

French seismic data specialist CGG has announced the delivery of the eastern phase of its GeoVerse Carbon Storage Gulf of Mexico Study and the start of the westward extension of the study.

Electric utility Avangrid is pulling out of what was to have been Connecticut’s biggest offshore wind project, Park City Wind, saying inflation and other adverse economic factors that have hit the offshore wind industry made the project “unfinanceable.”

(The Center Square) – Last week a federal judge ruled the Biden administration must go through with offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico by Sept. 27 as originally planned and under original conditions. One week later, the Fifth Circuit amended the ruling, pushing back the lease sale date to Nov. 8.

Former President Donald Trump recently claimed that “windmills are causing whales to die” in record numbers, but there’s no scientific evidence to support that.