The Texas lease areas include a carve-out to protect shrimping grounds. 29 sale will include 102,480-acre lease area located 64 miles from Lake Charles, La., and two areas that are 28 miles from the coast at Galveston, Texas - one of those would be 102,480 acres and the other 96,786 acres.
The Gulf sale, which will offer three areas off the coast of Texas and Louisiana, could support enough wind turbines to power 1.3 million homes. Ain’t seen nothing yet.” Gulf’s first wind sale “We’re going to the Gulf,” Biden said, heralding the lease sale. Thursday’s leasing announcement could help him get there. The president wants to reach 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. Offshore wind - which stands to receive major tax benefits through last year’s Inflation Reduction Act - is a critical part of Biden’s strategy for creating jobs and slashing emissions. offshore wind market were it not for the Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy policies,” White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. The company “has stated that it would not have entered the growing U.S. The company employs over 1,000 workers across nine unions to build the vessel and will use rock from American quarries to protect offshore wind foundations, according to the White House. The Acadia vessel, the first U.S.-flagged subsea rock installation vessel, is being built by the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. Biden and other Democratic lawmakers are bragging about the jobs created and emissions reduced through the new laws that boost clean energy and manufacturing as they hammer the Republicans who voted against those investments. The Gulf leasing announcement and Biden’s speech come as the president and his top aides have been touring the country to herald the investments from the climate law and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. “This law is creating millions of good-paying clean energy manufacturing jobs, including offshore wind,” Biden said.
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