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Offshore wind is poised to take off in the U.S.—but it won’t be easy The Biden administration plans to build thousands of offshore wind turbines by 2030, a daunting task. Experts say it’s possible if everything goes as planned. ByMadeleine Stone Email At a port on the Delaware River in southern New Jersey, construction workers are busy pouring a concrete foundation larger than a football field. By the end of the year, it will support a factory unlike anything ever built in the United States. The factory’s purpose: to turn sheets of steel from the heartland into columns that will under...

Southwire’s facility in Huntersville, North Carolina will manufacture the 51km of HV cable for the project. Completion of the contract is projected for the first quarter of 2023. Vineyard Wind chief executive Lars Pedersen said: “We’re proud to partner with Southwire, a leading US company that clearly sees the tremendous potential of offshore wind. “Partnerships with US companies at all levels of the supply chain and in different regions of the country will be essential to maximising the potential of this industry here in the US. “Vineyard Wind 1 has already teamed up with some stro...

Climate bill clears Massachusetts Senate again after last week’s delay Updated Mar 15, 2021; By Colin A. Young | State House News Service For the fourth time in just more than a year, the Massachusetts Senate on Monday voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation that would commit the state to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century. Gov. Charlie Baker and legislative leaders separately announced their support for the net-zero goal in January 2020, but codifying that shared priority into law has proved to be more complicated and the climate policy bill has been ping-po...

124 views Herald News BOSTON - Federal environmental officials have completed their review of the Vineyard Wind I offshore wind farm, moving the project that is expected to deliver clean renewable energy to Massachusetts by the end of 2023 closer to becoming a reality. The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday morning that its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed the analysis it resumed about a month ago, published the project's final environmental impact statement, and said it will officially publish notice of the impact statement in the Federal Register later this week. "Mor...

Mosquito protein study could lead to therapeutics against deadly viruses The mosquito protein AEG12 strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika and weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. The researchers found that AEG12 works by destabilizing the viral envelope, breaking its protective covering. Although the protein does not affect viruses that do not have an envelope, such as those that cause pink eye and bladder infections, the findings could lead to therapeut...