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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

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

Mass. official asks federal task force to account for states' different approaches to ocean management

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2009

Testifying before a federal task force charged with developing a comprehensive ocean spatial management plan, Deerin Babb-Brott of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs requested that the task force take into account the differing approaches taken by different states

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

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

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

President Obama orders development of national ocean policy

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2009

Last Friday, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum ordering the formation of an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, headed by the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality

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

NOAA joins in announcing governors’ South Atlantic Alliance

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 27 2009

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina have recently formed an alliance to increase collaboration on the protection and management of ocean and coastal resources

Massachusetts "blazing a trail," issues comprehensive draft ocean management plan

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

On June 30, 2009, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued a comprehensive draft ocean management plan that is intended to "serve as the basis for the protection and sustainable use of our ocean and coastal waters."