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OFFSHORE WIND midst an atmosphere of possible resurgence in the domestic offshore oil energy, maritime stakeholders are also reminded that there is more than one kind

A of energy available for development off the four collective coasts of the United States. That process is underway in the Great Lakes; it has already happened off of New Eng- land. To that end, and last April, the Department of the

Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a ‘Call for Information and Nominations.’

This ‘Call’ started a formal process for BOEM to gather in- formation about developers’ interest in commercial wind en- ergy leases in the Atlantic outer continental shelf. More spe- ci