In 2020, installation was completed on the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. (U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) CHALMETTE — ...

Plonk a collection of colossal, whirling blades in any location, and it's practically guaranteed that some birds will die. Yet many of the strongest backers of offshore wind farms are wildlife ...

Louisiana approved the state’s first-ever wind energy operating agreements in state offshore waters Dec. 13 at the State Mineral and Energy Board meeting. Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana ...

Louisiana’s first commercial-scale wind turbine won’t produce much energy, but its location has plenty of symbolic power. Set to spin over the Gulf of Mexico’s largest oil and gas port late next year, ...

Wind energy has gained some momentum in Louisiana, where there has been bipartisan support for policy to launch the alternative power source off its coast. But that push faces hostility from the Trump ...

State rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, views the recent updates to Louisiana’s offshore wind energy legislation as an important step in securing new investments and new jobs through the state’s ...

A proposed law could both open Louisiana waters to offshore wind energy development and close it by making wind farms too costly. House Bill 165 would set up a legal framework to allow offshore wind ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUMA, La. (AP) — In Louisiana bayou country ...

AS YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR THIS MORNING. ALL RIGHT. LOUISIANA WILL SOON HAVE ITS FIRST WIND TURBINE, AND IT’S GOING TO BE RIGHT IN OUR BACKYARD IN LAFOURCHE PARISH. AND LISA AGREEMENT WAS APPROVED LAST ...

When they’re not studying hydraulic systems, electric motors and coastal ecology, the inaugural class of a first-of-its-kind community college program will be diving into a bayou, climbing towers and ...