Efforts in New York to rely on offshore wind to reach its renewable energy goals took a hit Friday when a regulatory agency dumped three critical projects. The decision is another setback to New York’s aspirations to achieve 70 percent …

Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said Thursday he plans to introduce legislation to repeal the BLM rule using the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn regulations by a simple majority vote. “With this …

Donegal County Council has secured a High Court order prohibiting further development of a wind farm at a site that was the subject of a large bog slide that had “significant environmental consequences”. Mr Justice David Holland’s order …

China said it was concerned by what it called discriminatory measures by the European Union (EU) against its firms after the bloc said it would investigate subsidies received by Chinese suppliers of wind turbines destined for its …

Saving the whales was once a leading cause of left-wing environmental groups like Greenpeace. But offshore wind development has created an ironic twist in which conservative groups are now the loudest voices raising concerns about the …

The Shaftsbury Solar Project is in Shaftsbury, Vermont, saddled between Hale Mountain and Harrington Cobble, on a property with 182 acres of mostly gently rolling fields and forests. Approximately 104 acres have been  proposed for …

The US is betting the transition to cleaner energy combined with massive infrastructure investments will reverse a persistent decline in family farms, creating new revenue opportunities for growers while boosting their ability to compete …

The Maine House of Representatives voted Tuesday to protect sand dunes on Sears Island where the Mills administration has proposed to build an offshore wind terminal. In an 80-65 vote, the House rejected legislation that would have …

Thomas Quinn wants to build a hyperscale data center — what would be the single largest user of electricity in Connecticut — next to the Millstone Nuclear Power plant in Waterford. The center would use more than 9% of the average power …

The agency that granted Ørsted the permit for the project, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), is being challenged in federal district court by two Rhode Island non-profits, The Preservation Society of Newport County and …

Less than a month after filing a lawsuit to prevent Dominion Energy from starting construction on Virginia’s offshore wind project, three public interest groups are taking further action against the utility company in the name of the …

A recent draft environmental impact study of the impact of offshore wind turbines in the New York Bight — the ocean waters off New York and New Jersey — made only brief and passing mention of the monarchs, which congregate on South Shore …

A bid to build a 125 metre high wind turbine near Neilston has been rejected after planners warned it would have a “significant” detrimental impact on the landscape. Officials at East Renfrewshire Council recommended the application was …

As World Energy GH2 clears another hurdle in its plan to build Canada's first wind-to-hydrogen project on Newfoundland's west coast, a non-profit environmental group says they still have serious doubts about the proposal. Nick Mercer, …

CA State Senator Brian Dahle wrote this piece in response to the massive offshore wind development proposed off California's coast.

In what is believed to be a world first, the federal government has proposed developing an offshore wind farm in the middle of a whale super highway off Western Australia’s southwest coast. Each year, tens of thousands of whales use the …

This important report analyzes underwater noise levels captured by Rand Acoustics, LLC of wind turbine piles driving at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore project in waters south of Massachusetts. Measurements were taken at six different …

This important report analyzes underwater sonar noise levels captured by Rand Acoustics, LLC at different distances from an active sonar survey being conducted at a wind lease area 43 miles offshore New Jersey. Rand determined in his …