The Biden administration announced the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind power in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, the next phase among recent moves that are already adding wind power up and down the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
The Interior Department will open over 300,000 acres in the Gulf, long dominated by fossil-fuel drillingCL00 via offshore rig. The first sites will be off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
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