Federal officials green light offshore wind energy leasing in Maryland

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DOI BOEM seal miniWind energy development off of Maryland’s Eastern Shore inched closer to reality after federal officials in Baltimore announced that developing wind energy there would not harm the coastal environment.

In a statement released last week, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar – along with Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy Beaudreau – released findings from a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessment indicating there would be “no significant environmental impacts from issuing wind energy leases in areas off the mid-Atlantic Coast.”

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Marylanders: Rally for State's Clean Energy Future!

 

In less than one week on Wednesday, January 11th, the Maryland General Assembly will begin its 2012 session.  If reducing childhood asthma attacks, bringing back Maryland manufacturing, and solving our climate crisis are important to you, there will be one issue you’ll be watching above all others: offshore wind power. 

And if offshore wind power is important to you, please join Marylanders from across the state at 10:30am next Wednesday to rally in front of the State House as legislators enter for the first time this year.  Let’s show our leaders that we are expecting leadership on Maryland’s clean energy future.  They’ve passed laws to develop renewable energy and reduce global warming pollution.  Now it’s time to fulfill the promise of those laws and we’ll need offshore wind power to do it.

 

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