Sentences with phrase «federal offshore areas»
The plan includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic region.
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Former Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Andrew Cuomo today denounced the Trump administration's proposal to open up new areas to offshore drilling, and the governor announced that the state would formally request that New York be excluded from any federal move to expand offshore drilling.
The federal government has designated an 81,000 - acre area off of Long Island for possible commercial offshore wind development.
This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.
But none of the scenarios studied include any land - based wind, and none include a build - out of the federal offshore wind energy area Dominion bought the rights to, which could support at least 2,000 MW of offshore wind power.
The federal government has jurisdiction from three to 200 miles offshore, while states have authority within the three - mile area.
The proposed area is the largest in federal waters and will nearly double the area available for offshore wind energy projects in the U.S..
Today's announcement builds on BOEM's work to foster offshore renewable energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind Energy Areas and hold competitive lease sales.
We are eager to continue working alongside local, state, and federal groups to help site offshore wind farms in the most responsible and economic areas.
House legislation requiring a new federal offshore leasing plan that includes areas off South Carolina and Virginia is the best way to create new access to federal oil and natural gas resources sooner rather than later.
As a candidate, President - Elect Trump pledged to pursue an energy approach that would include «opening federal lands for oil and gas production, opening offshore areas, and revoking policies that are imposing unnecessary restrictions on innovative and new exploration technologies.»