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California fishing groups sue wind developers to delay marine surveys

California fishermen’s groups are suing developers Equinor, Invenergy and a joint venture of Ocean W...

California’s largest Native American tribe votes to oppose offshore wind

California’s largest Native American tribe, the Yurok, has voted to formally oppose offshore w...

Florida moves to ban offshore wind over ‘views from the beach’ – report

Offshore wind turbines may be banned in state waters off Florida under new legislation. The conserva...

Anti-wind Trump to face Biden in US presidential election

Donald Trump will battle Joe Biden for the US presidency after his Republican rival, Nikki Haley, wa...

Alberta to ban new wind farms in much of the province as renewables pause ends

The provincial government of Alberta in Canada is seeking to ban the development of new wind farms i...

Tribal groups sue Pattern over ‘reckless’ transmission line for wind mega project

SunZia Transmission is a “reckless” project that should be re-routed to be less harmful to Native Am...

Enel ordered to tear down wind farm as Osage nation wins legal victory

Enel has been ordered to dismantle a wind farm after representatives of the Native American Osage na...

SunZia transmission line works halted after ‘urgent request’ from indigenous group

The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has ordered work to stop on part...

No case to answer: US judge throws out lawsuits against Vineyard Wind 1

Two lawsuits which accused federal agencies of illegally approving the 806MW Vineyard Wind 1 project...

Can the wind industry and indigenous peoples coexist?

Indigenous and first nations communities are being confronted by wind energy developments on their t...

Canadian renewables groups slam Alberta’s pause on wind and solar projects

Renewable energy groups in Canada are calling on the Alberta government to reverse its decision to p...

Demand to certify offshore wind will not interfere with radar clears first hurdle

The US House of Representatives has passed an amendment to an aviation bill that would require the B...

Ocean Wind 1 sued over alleged environmental impacts

Three groups in New Jersey have filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Environmental Prot...

New Jersey county mulls legal challenge against Ørsted over Ocean Wind projects, citing tourism hit

Authorities in Cape May county, New Jersey have passed a resolution unanimously opposing Ørsted's pl...

Pentagon objects to US offshore wind leasing areas over military training

The Pentagon has taken a “very aggressive” stance in red-flagging four of six draft offshore wind le...

New Jersey lawmakers call for offshore wind survey pause

New Jersey congresspeople have issued a resolution calling for an immediate moratorium "on sonar tes...

Republicans demand whale death hearings as fishing group calls BOEM rudderless

Republicans who oppose wind development after recent whale deaths off New Jersey said they will hold...

In conversation with BOEM chief Elizabeth Klein

Elizabeth Klein, the new chief at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), discusses the route ...

Invenergy's 5GW Grain Belt power line wins key approval amid legal challenge

State authorities in Illinois have approved plans for a $7bn transmission project which could bring ...

Protesters banned from blocking Newfoundland wind testing site

Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court has granted an injunction against protesters obstructing acc...

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