SouthCoast Wind Drops Cape Cod Marathon
The Falmouth Enterprise|Tao Woolfe|Jan 24, 2025
The Falmouth Running Club is looking for a new title sponsor for the Cape Cod Marathon after SouthCoast Wind, which has sponsored the weekend-long event for the past four years, pulled out. Event officials said SouthCoast’s reasons for leaving were vague. But the pullout comes as President Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, signed an executive order pausing federal approval of all offshore wind leases and permits.
The Falmouth Running Club is looking for a new title sponsor for the Cape Cod Marathon after SouthCoast Wind, which has sponsored the weekend-long event for the past four years, pulled out. Event officials said SouthCoast’s reasons for leaving were vague. But the pullout comes as President Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, signed an executive order pausing federal approval of all offshore wind leases and permits.
SouthCoast Wind Drops Cape Cod Marathon
The Falmouth Running Club is looking for a new title sponsor for the Cape Cod Marathon after SouthCoast Wind, which has sponsored the weekend-long event for the past four years, pulled out.
Event officials said SouthCoast’s reasons for leaving were vague.
But the pullout comes as President Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, signed an executive order pausing federal approval of all offshore wind leases and permits.
SouthCoast had in December won approval from the US Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for its plans to build a 2.4-gigawatt windfarm in federal waters 26 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The project includes 141 wind turbines—each standing …
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The Falmouth Running Club is looking for a new title sponsor for the Cape Cod Marathon after SouthCoast Wind, which has sponsored the weekend-long event for the past four years, pulled out.
Event officials said SouthCoast’s reasons for leaving were vague.
But the pullout comes as President Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, signed an executive order pausing federal approval of all offshore wind leases and permits.
SouthCoast had in December won approval from the US Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for its plans to build a 2.4-gigawatt windfarm in federal waters 26 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The project includes 141 wind turbines—each standing 1,066 feet tall—and five offshore substation platforms.
While SouthCoast had its primary federal permit in hand, it still required several smaller permits before it could move forward.
President Trump’s new order temporarily withdraws all federal waters from consideration for offshore wind leases and halts any future leasing, permits and loans for offshore and onshore wind projects pending a review. This leaves the entire future of the SouthCoast Wind project (and many others) up in the air.
Now that SouthCoast has dropped its title sponsorship of the marathon, the running club has less than a year to line up a new one.
The Cape Cod Marathon is held every October in Falmouth. This year marks the 48th year for the event.
The races include a half-marathon, a full marathon, a five-person marathon relay, a 5K and a free children’s fun run.
All proceeds from the weekend events go to the Falmouth Running Club to support its youth running programs, high school scholarships, environmental initiatives and community events.
Jack Afarian, president of the Falmouth Running Club and race director for the Cape Cod Marathon, can be reached at director@capecodmarathon.com.