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Calming the Seas for Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy Modernization Rule Seeks to Boost Regulatory and Financial Certainty for Wind...

On 24 April 2024 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a final rule to update regulations for renewable energy development on the US Outer...more

BOEM Offshore Wind Lease Update: Gulf of Mexico Auction Produces Lackluster Results, Not Likely Repeated in Future Oregon and...

The results of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM’s) recent auction of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) lease areas sharply depart from recent auctions and may signal uncertainty about current prospects for offshore wind...more

BOEM Proposes Regulations to Improve Offshore Wind Lease Auction Processes and Project Development Timelines

In 2023, federal agencies are poised to deliver rapid advancements in the development of offshore wind projects in the United States. In particular, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—the...more

Carbon Quarterly – Special Edition

Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more

Offshore Wind Handbook

The U.S. offshore wind market has surged in growth over the last few years, bolstered by the U.S government’s commitment in 2021 to increase offshore wind lease capacity as well as the Biden Administration’s declaration that...more

BOEM Issues Final Sale Notice for Offshore Wind Lease Areas in Carolina Long Bay

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold its next offshore wind lease auction on 11 May 2022, for two lease areas in the Carolina Long Bay. The lease areas comprise 110,091 acres off the coast of North and South...more

Record-Setting New York Bight Auction and Newly-Announced Oregon Lease Areas Portend Rapid Growth in U.S. Offshore Wind Industry

Offshore wind is in high demand, as evidenced by the US$4.37 billion in winning bids generated in the recent federal government auction of lease blocks in the New York Bight. On a per-acre basis, the provisional winners were...more

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Propels the U.S. Offshore Wind Industry

The flurry of offshore wind activity off the U.S. Eastern Seaboard continues, as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced recently it will hold an auction on 23 February 2022, to lease six new areas for...more

Developers Submit Unsolicited Requests for Wind Leases Offshore Massachusetts and New York

On March 10, 2017, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) posted four unsolicited applications for wind project leases on the Outer Continental Shelf. PNE Wind U.S.A., Inc. has filed three...more

Eagle Take Permit Program Revamped – Longer Permits and Clearer Mitigation Requirements

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) recently proposed revisions to its regulations authorizing take of bald and golden eagles. The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (“BGEPA”) imposes criminal and...more

The Final Northern Long-Eared Bat 4(d) Rule: Impacts to Energy Infrastructure Projects

Last spring, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) published a final rule to list the northern long-eared bat (the “Bat”) as a threatened species and an interim 4(d) rule under the Endangered Species Act (the...more

The New 2013 Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance: Certainty for the Industry or Dust in the Wind?

The new Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance issued by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (“FWS”) presents an interesting question for wind project developers and operators – does it really provide greater certainty and reduce...more

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