Biden administration announces record-breaking offshore wind lease sale off New York, New Jersey coasts

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73% : Meanwhile, officials said that Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency are also forming a new collaboration to improve the "efficiency and effectiveness" of reviews of clean energy projects on public lands, to expand solar, onshore wind, and geothermal energy.
63% : Officials noted that the Department of Agriculture is creating a pilot program to support clean energy, to ensure that the benefits reach rural communities.
60% : The effort is expected to build on the Department of the Interior's approvals over the past year of 18 onshore projects that officials say will deliver 4.175 GW of clean energy.
56% : Biden administration officials said that the upcoming lease sale in the New York Bight is expected to generate up to 7 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy, and help to create thousands of jobs in manufacturing, construction, operations, maintenance and service industries.
47% : The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a record-breaking offshore wind lease sale off of the coasts of New York and New Jersey - a lease projected to generate clean energy, power 2 million homes, and create thousands of jobs in neighboring communities.

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