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Chairman's mark of climate change bill maintains marine spatial planning in managing offshore renewables

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2009

Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee released yesterday an updated version of H.R. 2454, the House bill designed to promote green energy and address global climate change

Vice President, Sec'y Salazar, and Sen. Carper discuss OCS renewable projects

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2009

On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) spoke on offshore renewable energy projects at the University of Delaware

Maryland to examine potential for offshore wind

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 18 2009

This week the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) announced a new initiative to evaluate potential wind resources located offshore Maryland

DOI encouraged to consider long-term impact of renewable energy projects

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2009

In a June 3 hearing the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies urged DOI Secretary Ken Salazar to consider the potential negative environmental impacts of renewable projects on surrounding habitats both on- and offshore

Five mid-Atlantic states pledge coordination on offshore policy

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 9 2009

The governors of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia signed an agreement last week pledging to coordinate their respective states' coastal and ocean policies

Salazar unveils new offshore renewable energy office at Copenhagen conference

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2009

During a tour of a wind farm near the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that the MMS will establish a new regional office to oversee offshore renewable energy project development off the Atlantic seaboard

Senators introduce Renewable Energy Research Act

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 14 2009

Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced a bill yesterday to establish a comprehensive ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, and atmospheric research, prediction, and environmental information program within NOAA to support renewable energy

MMS determines no environmental impact statement required for 5 offshore leases off New Jersey, Delaware coasts

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 1 2009

The MMS published a formal notice regarding the leases of five OCS blocks off the coasts of New Jersey and Delaware that were announced last week

FERC, Interior delineate jurisdiction over renewable energy projects on the OCS

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 10 2009

A longstanding skirmish regarding jurisdiction over renewable energy development in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) may have been laid to rest

Inslee bill would create joint permitting office for offshore renewable projects

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2009

According to BNA's Daily Report for Executives, Rep. Inslee (D-WA) plans to introduce a bill in committee later this month that would (1) create a new permitting office for offshore renewable energy projects and (2) increase research, development and deployment funding for such projects