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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Brian Dabbs |Marc Heller |Kevin Bogardus |Heather Richards
CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration fired federal employees on probationary status Thursday, affecting tens of thousands of staffers nationwide. The Department of Energy, Forest Service and Office of Personnel Management are among the agencies that axed staffers, several current and former federal employees said. All agency employees for this story were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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2 months ago | 
politico.com | Kevin Bogardus |Heather Richards |Scott Streater |Hannah Northey
“They would likely have had a better response and wouldn’t be looking like idiots right now,” said the agency staffer. “I really hope this gets settled soon so I can sleep at night.” Federal employees, some granted anonymity to speak candidly because they feared retaliation, said any trust they had in the new administration has waned. Details of the offer have changed, coupled with threats of imminent layoffs and ridicule of public sector jobs.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
politico.com | Heather Richards
An airplane flies over caribou on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. | Fish and Wildlife Service via AP President-elect Donald Trump once promised to unleash drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That never happened, but second terms are second chances for presidents to barrel through key policy priorities. That means a redoubled effort to tap Alaska’s most coveted oil field, situated in the nation’s most remote public lands.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
savingseafood.org | Heather Richards
November 5, 2024 — Dominion Energy has halted some construction on its massive offshore wind project off the coast of Virginia to allow endangered whales to migrate through the area in the winter. The 176-turbine project will be the largest offshore wind farm in U.S. waters if completed on schedule in 2026, at a cost of nearly $10 billion.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
savingseafood.org | Heather Richards
August 15, 2024 — The Biden administration scooped $93 million from offshore wind developers Wednesday in a sale off the coast of Delaware and Virginia, striking a bullish note for President Joe Biden’s offshore wind legacy despite the industry’s economic headwinds. Just two leases were up for bid in the central Atlantic sale. A wind lease off the coast of Delaware netted $75 million, from the Norwegian energy giant Equinor, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s preliminary results.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
leeds-live.co.uk | Samantha Teasdale |Heather Richards |Paul Jackson
Instead of the main storyline playing on the silver screen last night, something very different was on every Emmerdale viewer's mind. The main character in their sights was Caleb Miligan. In the episode, he and his wife Ruby returned home from their holiday in Bali, and found out there had been a fire at his car dealership.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
savingseafood.org | Heather Richards
March 9, 2024 — Virginia utility Dominion Energy will pay nearly $1 million to offset the impacts to coastal views from its 176-turbine offshore wind farm in Virginia Beach. The company will pay the city $290,000 for visual impacts. Virginia Beach’s City Council voted earlier this week to use the money for historical preservation projects. Separately, the Richmond, Virginia, power company will pay $650,000 to the first Cape Henry Lighthouse on the Virginia coast, also for visual impacts.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Brian Dabbs |Heather Richards |Jason Plautz
CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden tied his climate policies to domestic manufacturing growth and union jobs in the final State of the Union address of his first term. "I’m taking the most significant action ever on climate in the history of the world," he said Thursday night to a House chamber that featured heckles from Republicans and chants of “four more years” from Democratic allies.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
politico.com | Heather Richards
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska (left); President Joe Biden speaking in Washington this month (right). | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AFP via Getty Images; Evan Vucci/AP (Biden)President Joe Biden has a potential climate headache brewing in Alaska, where a congressionally imposed deadline requires him to hold an oil lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by December.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
politico.com | Heather Richards |Joel Kirkland
The ship UHL Felicity carrying parts for offshore wind turbines arrives in New Bedford, Mass., in May. | Rodrique Ngowi/AP PhotoOffshore wind has been a White House favorite since President Joe Biden took office, representing the promise of building a clean energy future in the U.S.But a recently canceled offshore wind project in New Jersey — and the uncertain financial outlook of numerous projects — has experts questioning whether the industry needs a reset.
