US Agencies Reduce Red Tape on Offshore Renewable Energy Project Approval

photo: Vik Walker via flickr Developers of offshore wind power projects in the United States may still have to worry about financing, but the amount of bureaucratic red tap that has to be untangled will now be less of a hassle. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Acting Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Jon Wellinghoff have announced that their two agencies will now divide up the work overseeing offshore reneawable energy development:...