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The U.S. offshore wind industry appears poised at the brink of optimism it first saw a decade ago, when Obama administration officials talked of wind power assuming coal's then-dominant role in the nation's electric grid. That moment was dashed when the Cape Wind proposal off Massachusetts was hounded away by its Cape Cod opponents, and the Obama offshore energy plans derailed by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Now with the Biden administration looking to renewable energy as a cornerstone of economic recovery, offshore wind's time could be here again. And just before leaving for the holidays, Congress took a step to push for employing more U.S. mariners in the industry. |