Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published July 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM EDT

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The Trump administration has erased all wind energy areas in federal waters, including two million acres in the Gulf of Maine.

The zones were developed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to offer wind power leases to energy developers.

Amber Hewett director of offshore wind energy at the National Wildlife Foundation said removing the areas is a follow up to the administration’s earlier order to stop all wind power lease sales.

"The change here is that now, when a new administration comes in, those areas won't be ready and waiting. They have been deleted, and the process will need to start again at the beginning," Hewett said.

Establishing the areas took years of consultation with fisheries, coastal communities, shipping companies, tribes, environmental groups and other interests........................

.................................But Dustin Delano, Chief Operating Officer of the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association, said the agency decision was a "great step forward" for the fishing industry, coastal communities and ocean ecosystems. 

https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-07-31/federal-regulators-eliminate-gulf-of-maine-wind-power-zone

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