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The resistance is forcing state and local governments that have embraced wind, with strong Obama administration backing, to pay closer attention to where wind farms are located and how they impact surroundings.

Inflation, high interest rates and even dead whales are lining up to delay the fledgling US offshore wind industry from taking off.

(CNN) — For as much as offshore wind energy has become a hot-button issue, the United States only has seven turbines spinning over its oceans: five off the coast of

(CNN) — For as much as offshore wind energy has become a hot-button issue, the United States only has seven turbines spinning over its oceans: five<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/inflation-interest-rates-and-whales-why-offshore-wind-projects-are-on-the-rocks/">Read More</a>

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The $4 billion project, known as Vineyard Wind, is expected to start generating electricity by year’s end.

Forget the family pedigree—Robert F. Kennedy Jr should not be the next president of the United States

With no magic bullet on the horizon, achieving the Massachusetts clean energy objectives will require a multi-pronged approach, with a blend of carrots and sticks to massively accelerate the rate of change.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.

The U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.