{"id":4673,"date":"2021-03-12T22:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2021-03-12T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T22:23:45","slug":"biden-administration-gives-major-push-to-giant-offshore-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration gives major push to giant offshore wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Interior Department said on Monday it had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/vineyard-wind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">completed its environmental review<\/a>&nbsp;for a massive wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, a key step toward final approval of the long-stalled project that will play a prominent role in President Joe Biden&#8217;s effort to expand renewable energy in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The completion of the review is a breakthrough for the U.S. offshore wind industry, which has lagged behind its European counterparts and the U.S. onshore industry&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2021\/02\/wind-power-sets-new-record-in-2020-despite-pandemic-2032503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that has grown rapidly, even during<\/a>the pandemic. It also marks a key acceleration for the Biden administration that has advocated renewables growth on public lands and waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The project had suffered repeated delays under the Trump administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/08\/biden-administration-offshore-wind-474371\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/08\/biden-administration-offshore-wind-474371<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Interior Department said on Monday it had completed its environmental review for a massive wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, a key step toward final approval of the long-stalled project that will play a prominent role in President Joe Biden&#8217;s effort to expand renewable energy in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The completion of the review is a breakthrough for the U.S. offshore wind industry, which has lagged behind its European counterparts and the U.S. onshore industry that has grown rapidly, even during the pandemic. It also marks a key acceleration for the Biden administration that has advocated renewables growth on public lands and waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project had suffered repeated delays under the Trump administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,780,1059],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}