Offshore wind leases on the horizon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Sens. Maria Cantwell and Lisa Murkowski are pushing together legislation offering expanded investment tax credits with a direct pay option for hydropower, and Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden included hydropower under the clean energy tax credits in his committee's latest reconciliation text.
59% : Witnesses at the hearing also said tax benefits for other low-emissions sources draw away potential investors for hydropower.
56% : And farther South: The Interior Department is also eyeing the Gulf of Mexico for potential offshore wind in federal waters, bringing renewable power into a region traditionally dominated by oil and gas.
47% : EPA is already proposing to deny applications from plants in Indiana, Ohio and Iowa, with a conditional approval for a fourth plant in Kentucky contingent on groundwater monitoring requirements, the agency announced Tuesday.
46% : -- EPA is assessing over 50 applications for coal ash compliance extensions, proposing denials for at least three coal plants.
37% : The Biden administration decided against reconsidering the Trump-era rule last summer, to the chagrin of some environmentalists who are keeping a keen eye on how EPA rules on the extension applications.
36% : "It makes no sense for a board of environmental regulation to prevent this E15 from being sold during the summer." KEEPING AN EYE ON COAL ASH: EPA is assessing more than 50 coal plant applications for extensions in complying with coal ash compounding regulations meant to protect local water from contamination.

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