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Contact:\u00a0Tim Zink<\/a>\u00a0| 443-758-7344<\/p>\n Bureau of Ocean Energy Management took great care to avert and reduce potential environmental impacts, says director<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n BALTIMORE \u2013 <\/span>Maryland Energy Administration Director Paul G. Pinsky today issued the following statement on the Department of the Interior\u2019s <\/span>issuance of a Record of Decision<\/span><\/a> on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for two offshore wind development projects along the coast of Maryland and Delaware.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe approval of US Wind\u2019s Final Environmental Impact Statement for the MarWin and Momentum Wind projects is an important step forward in the effort to bring clean, renewable energy production to Maryland\u2019s coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is seeking to avoid and minimize possible detrimental impacts from offshore wind energy development. Today\u2019s announcement underscores the careful, comprehensive and collaborative environmental analysis that has gone into these projects. This speaks to the shared commitment between BOEM and the State of Maryland, which together recently entered into an Memorandum of Understanding on offshore wind energy development. These projects have the potential to bring sustainable power to more than 700,000 homes and create thousands of new jobs, moving the state decisively in the direction of Governor Moore’s goals for both clean energy and economic advancement. As we applaud this milestone, we look forward to future successes.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) promotes clean, affordable, reliable energy and energy-related greenhouse gas emission reductions to benefit Marylanders in a just and equitable manner. For more information about the agency and its programs, visit our website at <\/span><\/em>Energy.Maryland.gov<\/span><\/em><\/a>, and follow us on social media: <\/span><\/em>LinkedIn<\/span><\/em><\/a> | <\/span><\/em>X<\/span><\/em><\/a> | <\/span><\/em>Facebook<\/span><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n -###-<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\u00a0Tim Zink\u00a0| 443-758-7344 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management took great care to avert and reduce potential environmental impacts, says director BALTIMORE \u2013 Maryland Energy Administration Director Paul G. Pinsky today issued the following statement on the Department of the Interior\u2019s issuance of a Record of Decision on …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,10,4],"tags":[88,22,270],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-offshore-wind","tag-wind","tag-wind-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}