Today’s offshore wind project announcement demonstrates that we can fight the climate crisis, while creating high-paying jobs and strengthening our competitiveness at home and abroad,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a statement. “This project is an example of the investments we need to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s ambitious climate goals, and I’m proud to be part of the team leading the charge on offshore wind.”
Since 2017, the Vineyard Wind project has been subject to a federal review process that generated more than 30,000 public comments, more than 90% of which supported the project, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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In 2010, 10 years before the COVID-19 pandemic gave many faculty members only a few days to master new teaching technologies, Binyomin Abrams was producing dozens of short videos and seamlessly integrating them into the coursework of first-year chemistry courses. Today, more than 80 videos, many of them tied to courses and webinars, help Abrams’ students learn fundamental concepts in chemistry. His videos, as well as his innovative approach to helping remote students attend labs synchronously, are among the reasons that the College of Arts & Sciences master lecturer in chemistry and director of general chemistry has been awarded the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. The annual award provides $10,000 to the faculty member who best exemplifies innovation in teaching by using technology.
May 12 NEW BEDFORD Vineyard Wind received final federal approval on Tuesday to construct its 800-megawatt offshore wind project off the coast of Southern Massachusetts. It will be the first large-scale offshore wind project in the country. The U.S. Department of the Interior called it a "major milestone" that would "propel" the country toward a clean energy future. Project
Recent M&A Activity:
April 1, 2021: SunStreet, a subsidiary of
Lennar (NYS: LEN), was acquired by Sunnova Energy (NYS: NOVA) for
$354.5 million. Under the terms of the agreement and earnout
agreement, Lennar will receive total consideration of up to 7.22
million shares of Sunnova common stock, which is comprised of 3.33
million shares in initial consideration payable at closing and 3.89
million shares in consideration associated with two earnouts.
SunStreet is a provider of solar panel systems that designs solar
panels to produce more solar energy than most traditional
systems.
April 6, 2021: Recycled Energy Development, a
subsidiary of Ironclad Energy Partners, reached a definitive agreement to be acquired
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Waterfront development in Massachusetts has a new problem. In particular, projects that rely on a municipality’s approved municipal harbor plan and a corresponding building height exemption from what the Massachusetts waterfront development law otherwise requires will likely be blocked, at least for now. The impact is not limited to Boston, as municipal harbor plans reach deep into waterfront zoning and development statewide.
In the latest step attempting to resolve two separate actions involving a dispute over a proposed development on the City of Boston waterfront, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge recently held that the Commonwealth’s municipal harbor plan regulatory scheme was irreconcilable with the Commonwealth’s “Chapter 91” statute, which controls and dictates all development activity in and around tidelands of the Commonwealth. The Court explained that it could find no discernable wiggle room in Chapter 91’s provisions f