Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1413 (ILA) said Vineyard Wind has fallen short on its pledge to hire both Black and local workers. Union president Kevin Rose said 12 ILA members have part-time positions on …

Turbine components for the nations’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm arrived for assembly in New Bedford this week, an event celebrated by business leaders and government officials as a symbolic step forward for the city’s economy …

Cape May County NJ Board of County Commissioners unanimously passed this resolution opposing the two Orsted offshore wind energy projects to be sited off the coast of Cape May. The full resolution is provided below and can be downloaded …

The council is one of many groups being asked to submit an advisory opinion to the EFSB, which is made up of the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, the director of the Department of Environmental Management, and the associate …

Eversource Energy (ES.N) on Thursday agreed to sell its 50% stake in a wind development site off the south coast of Massachusetts to joint venture partner Ørsted for $625 million in cash. The agreement to sell the lease area of about …

Justices on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court indicated Wednesday that they are likely to have split opinions on whether a governor has the right to force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether …

The Woodbury County, Iowa Board of Supervisors adopted increased setback distances between utility-scale wind turbines and city limits and between utility-scale wind turbines and public conservation areas. The distances are now 2-miles to …

Updated Woodbury County wind turbine setback distances from city limits and public conservation areas have been approved. The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved and adopted increased commercial wind turbine setbacks …

Big Western wind turbine makers need direct financial support to make the investments needed to aid decarbonisation, Siemens Gamesa's operating chief said on Tuesday. The challenge for a turbine maker like Siemens Gamesa, a unit of …

A federal lawsuit that pits fishing interests against Vineyard Wind and offshore wind regulators continues in Boston’s federal courthouse, and a make-or-break hearing on a recent motion for a preliminary injunction to pause the project is …

“The Communist maquis resisted the Franco regime in these hills longer than anywhere else. Now these foreign investors are going to destroy the landscape and my livelihood with their giant wind turbines and we won’t even get a say in the …

Further wind development in Tama County appears to have encountered some headwinds in recent weeks as two different lawsuits involving the wind energy company Salt Creek Wind LLC and its consultants Robert and Eric Bergstrom play out in …

The trouble is that this is not how green politics works. Rather it is in the hands of student-like activists who will obsess about one narrow objective to the exclusion of all other concerns. The promotion of electric cars is a case in …

East Coast mayors took action to inform members of congress that offshore wind development needs to be stopped until a full investigation into the deaths of dozens of marine mammals, including whales and dolphins, is conducted.

In an open letter to Congress sent Tuesday, 50 mayors from across the three states said offshore wind development should immediately cease until a thorough investigation is conducted. The mayors expressed concern that the increasing …

The Senate Budget Committee chairman warned the Murphy administration against asking lawmakers to back new subsidies to developers who have won contracts to build offshore wind farms. In the committee’s final budget hearing Tuesday, Sen. …

Connecticut could be in danger of losing its biggest offshore wind project — the more than 800 megawatt plan known as Park City Wind. ...It’s a development that has the potential to send Connecticut back almost to the starting gate on …

Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless than the Atlantic winds: the Iron Law of Megaprojects, offering a warning of the trouble …