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To strengthen interagency cooperation in the advancement of safe and environmentally sustainable non-mineral (renewable) energy development, including offshore wind, on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) signed a MoU with two Department of the Interior bureaus.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it has completed its environmental analysis of the proposed Ocean Wind 1 wind project off the coast of New Jersey.

In effort, Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior announced the the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it will conduct a regional environmental review of the six New York Bight offshore lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey, in an area known as the New York Bight.

Τhe US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have issued a lease for the first wave energy research project in federal waters off the U.S. West Coast.

Four US institutions have received $1.1 million in grants to support regional fisheries studies that will collect data vital to the ongoing development of the offshore wind industry in North America.

New research from the US BSEE and BOEM indicates the need to define the Gulf of Mexico Shallow Water Province (water depth less than 200 meters) as a distinct province to avoid stranding more than $20 billion of the US oil and natural gas resources.

The US Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will offer 77.8 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for August 21, 2019. The sale would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it launched a Virtual Archaeology Museum. The museum shows video, detailed 3D models and mosaic maps of shipwrecks mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. These shipwrecks were discovered via underwater research and oil and gas exploration.

Graphic Products' Alison Warner designed an infographic presenting all the dangers that are lying behind the oil and gas industry. The equipment, the flammable chemicals and high pressures can easily result to fatal accidents. The oil and gas industry is amongst the most dangerous jobs in America, this is why it has one of the most thorough safety training programs.