A breakthrough for U.S. wind power After long delays, the nation’s first big offshore project has won approval May 12, 2021Updated 12:39 p.m. ET Also this week: California’s new rule to cut smog, a very powerful set of interactive maps and a climate activist who found strength in adversity. Image Wind turbines near Block Island, R.I., one of only two offshore wind farms operating in the United States.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times By Lisa Friedman The Biden administration has promised to build up the offshore wind industry, and this week it began to make good on that pledge by granting final approval to the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind farm, about 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.