Policy Memo: Promoting Wind Deployment With Gulf Gusto in Texas and Louisiana

Published on February 20, 2023

In the American Southeast, oil and gas developers have shown interest in learning the economics of offshore wind. States and the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have wanted to encourage this interest. This memo sets out steps for state-federal cooperation to encourage offshore wind deployment around and across the Gulf of Mexico.

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Policy Memo: The USA's Housing Department Should Inventory - and Slash - Emissions

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