Climate Politics
Biden Set to Announce Wind Turbine Plan for Oil-Rich Gulf of Mexico
- President outlines first step toward wind lease sales in Gulf
- Moves come as Congress stymies legislative action on climate
Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden announced plans to advance offshore wind power in the Gulf of Mexico and in Atlantic waters near the Southeast US, part of a bid to prove he’s confronting the climate crisis despite a congressional logjam on the issue.
Biden unveiled the offshore wind efforts in Massachusetts Wednesday as he sought to reinvigorate an environmental agenda damaged by Senator Joe Manchin’s decision to withdraw support for broad climate change and spending legislation. Biden cast his offshore wind moves as the first in a series of steps to combat the mounting climate crisis through presidential powers that aren’t tethered to Congress.