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A fleet of 25 fishing boats off the coast of Nantucket rallied together to protest Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind turbine project under scrutiny after one windmill broke.

'Menace to our fisheries': New England flotilla unites to protest wind farm after turbine 'disaster'

Colorado State

SOLAR: A Swiss firm cancels plans to establish a solar cell manufacturing plant in Colorado, saying market distortions have rendered the project financially unviable. (Reuters) ALSO: Residents of a sparsely populated Nevada county push back on a 6,200 MW solar complex proposed for more than 100,000 acres of federal land....

Solar cell company cancels Colorado factory plans

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Virginia State

The US has ambitious plans to significantly expand its offshore wind capacity, backed by substantial investments and government support. However, the industry has faced numerous setbacks, including project cancellations, delays, equipment failures, and financial difficulties for major companies like Orsted. Despite challenges, foreign investors like Equinor and Vestas remain committed...

Billions Pouring into U.S. Offshore Wind Despite Setbacks

New Bedford, MA

As concerns mount over the July collapse of one Vineyard Wind turbine blade, a “flotilla” of about two dozen commercial and recreational fishing vessels steamed to the wind farm on Sunday to protest offshore wind development and its impact on the marine ecosystem. The vessels, hoisting anti-offshore wind...

Fishermen protest Vineyard Wind turbine collapse

Ohio State

SOLAR: The leader of a “grassroots” anti-solar energy group admits to Ohio regulators that a well-connected natural gas executive is among its largest financial supporters. (Energy News Network) ALSO:. An Ohio city considers annexing land and creating new zoning regulations to accommodate a proposed 40 MW solar project....

‘Grassroots’ Ohio anti-solar group admits fossil fuel ties

Island resident Austin Starr was boating past the Vineyard Wind turbines on Saturday when he noticed something peculiar on one of the blades. Upon closer inspection, Starr saw that the tiny spec on the giant, 351-foot blade was in fact a person. He captured several images that truly show the immense scale of Vineyard Wind's turbines, which are the largest in the western world.

PHOTOS: Worker Scales Vineyard Wind Turbine Blade

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have pioneered a significant advancement in wind energy technology: the creation of wind turbine blades that are bio-derivable and chemically recyclable. This innovation could dramatically reduce the environmental impact of wind energy by eliminating the need to discard old blades in landfills, a growing concern as wind power becomes a central pillar of the global renewable energy landscape.

NREL’s Breakthrough in Renewable, Recyclable Wind Energy

The federal government issued a new "biological opinion" on the offshore wind power project off Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, finding that pile-driving noise associated with Vineyard Wind 1 is likely to adversely affect, but not likely to jeopardize, the continued existence of whales, fish or sea turtles listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Feds To Issue New Opinion On Vineyard Wind's Impact On Whales And Other Marine Life

California State

"What has already been achieved was scoffed at as impossible by skeptics, who now complain that the transition isn't really complete yet." California has reached an enviable energy milestone, according to Electrek. For 100 days, the state had at least some minutes where its entire power grid was fueled by renewable energy.

State achieves remarkable milestone with 100 days of 100% of electricity demands met by clean energy: 'This was declared impossible'

BGR.com

We all know that climate change is slowly causing massive changes to our world. What you might not know is that those changes are more extensive than just rising sea levels. In fact, research has shown that Antarctica is rising up out of the ocean as it sheds its ice, and the effects on our planet are going to be massive.
The process is what scientists call post-glacial uplift, and a batch of new data gathered by researchers suggests that it could have a major impact on global sea levels going forward. First, it could reduce Antarctica’s overall contribution by up...

Antarctica is rising out of the ocean and it could change everything

Iran is embarking on a US$70 billion investment programme of measures to attempt to halt a dramatic decline in output from its crucial South Pars gas field. A failure to do so will result in the loss of 40 percent of the country’s petrol output from the Persian Gulf Star gas condensate refinery, and the addition of up to US$12 billion a year of petrochemical costs, according to Iranian Gas Institute forecasts. “South Pars’ gas output provides nearly 80 percent of the our [Iran’s] total gas production, so it is vital to all segments of business and society that this does not drop significantly,” a senior energy industry source who works closely with Islamic Republic’s Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com last week.

The World’s Biggest Gas Reservoir Is At A Tipping Point

KF Wind, a floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan by Ocean Winds and Mainstream Renewable Power, has secured the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval from the Ministry of Environment for the totality of the two-phase project. The EIA was achieved after more than 12 months...

Ocean Winds and Mainstream Renewable Power Win EIA for Their KF Wind Project

Seismologists measure tremors from distances up to 5000 km away. On September 16, 2023, a massive wave struck a fjord on Greenland’s east coast, leaving evidence of flooding up to 200 meters (650 feet) high in some areas. Researchers, led by Angela Carrillo Ponce from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), have analyzed seismic data from earthquake monitoring stations worldwide and uncovered another remarkable event. The megatsunami triggered a standing wave that oscillated back and forth in the narrow, uninhabited Dickson Fjord for over a week. The international team has published their findings in the journal The Seismic Records.

650 Feet High: The Megatsunami That Rocked Greenland’s East Coast

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Another turbine blade failure at an offshore wind farm has raised questions about whether manufacturers could have done things differently.

Latest offshore wind incident sparks questions over the manufacturer’s liability

Louisiana State

Critical infrastructure could be at serious risk, with 1,600 buildings liable to flood twice a year between now and 2050. The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a stark warning about the future of coastal areas across the United States as sea levels continue to rise. This group expects critical...

Scientists issue urgent warning after finding coastal sites at severe flood risk — here's what you need to know

It uses state-of-the-art models to estimate the shutdown could happen between 2037 and 2064, and that it’s more likely than not to collapse by 2050.

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week, the 13-megawatt Haliade-X wind turbine with a span of 350 feet experienced its third blade incident in nearly as many months when a “blade failure” occurred at the under-construction Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom. It’s the...

Another GE wind turbine blade fails in UK

Mainstream Renewable Power, the pureplay global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons, has announced that KF Wind, a 1,125MW floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan, South Korea, has secured the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval from the Ministry of Environment for the totality of the two-phase project.

Environmental Approval Granted for Floating Wind Project in South Korea

Alaska State

Warmer, ice-free conditions in the southeast Bering Sea are roughly 200 times more likely now than before humans began burning planet-warming fossil fuels.

Scientists have more evidence to explain why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska

Massachusetts State

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Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, has recently introduced a tiny six-pound dog named Alistair who is looking for his forever home. At only one year old, this little boy is a sweet dog who is thought to be a Maltese, "but we can’t make any guarantees that he would be suitable for those with allergies," explains the nonprofit animal rescue.

Meet The Tiny 6lb Dog Looking For Love

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Federal report says offshore wind work not a threat to whales

WIND: A NOAA Fisheries analysis says pile-driving work on the Vineyard Wind project is unlikely to pose a threat to whales or other marine life, but...

Federal report says offshore wind work not a threat to whales

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