{"id":407686,"date":"2021-03-30T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407686"},"modified":"2021-03-30T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:58:51","slug":"biden-targets-big-offshore-wind-energy-expansion-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/biden-targets-big-offshore-wind-energy-expansion-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden targets big offshore wind energy expansion to fight climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that it has set a goal to vastly expand the nation&#8217;s offshore wind energy capacity in the coming decade by opening new areas to development, speeding environmental permitting, and boosting public financing for projects. <\/p>\n<p>The plan is part of Biden&#8217;s broader effort to rapidly transition the U.S. economy to net zero greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change, a politically controversial agenda that Republicans say could bring economic ruin but which Democrats say can create jobs while protecting the environment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden believes we have an enormous opportunity in front of us to not only address the threats of climate change, but use it as a chance to create millions of good-paying, union jobs,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that it has set a goal to vastly expand the nation&#8217;s offshore wind energy capacity in the coming decade by opening new areas to development, speeding environmental permitting, and boosting public financing for projects. The plan is part of Biden&#8217;s broader effort to rapidly transition the U.S. economy to net zero greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change, a politically controversial agenda that Republicans say could bring economic ruin but which Democrats say can create jobs while protecting the environment. &#8220;President Biden believes we have an enormous opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}