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A Year Later, Coast Guard Provides Emails Regarding Troubled Offshore Wind Study

2017-03-22

The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its year-long slow walk on filling requests for basic public records regarding a lobbyist-driven offshore wind energy study known as the Atlantic Coast Port Access Route Study (ACPARS).

Coast Guard Claims “Lack of Corporate Memory” About Critical Offshore Wind Energy Study

2017-02-17

Strange response to our repeated attempts to obtain public records that could help answer basic questions about the role of the shipping lobby in spurring the study and guiding its conclusions.

Will Shipping Lobby’s Handiwork Sabotage Offshore Wind Energy?

2017-02-7

An obscure Coast Guard committee, co-chaired by the powerful shipping lobby, has the power to force drastic cuts to lease areas that offshore-wind developers have already purchased.

Coast Guard Still Searching for Records of “Study” that Undermines Offshore Wind Energy

2016-12-28

Over the past 10 months, we have uncovered the shipping lobby’s influence in the Coast Guard’s offshore wind energy study, known as the Atlantic Coast Port Access Route Study (ACPARS), which was charged with balancing shipping navigation safety with the development of an offshore wind industry. Our reporting shows the study’s authors never visited an… Read more »

Next Step in Investigation of Coast Guard Offshore Wind Energy Study

2016-11-28

C&BP Requests Records of Coast Guard’s George Detweiler As our probe into the Coast Guard’s offshore wind study continues, a central player has emerged: George Detweiler. As readers will remember, we’ve been investigating the shipping lobby’s influence over an important, five-year study about balancing the development of a fledgling offshore wind energy industry in the… Read more »

Update: Federal Agency to Mediate Coast Guard’s Public Records Evasion

2016-11-3

The federal government’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ombudsman, the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), has agreed to mediate Checks and Balances Project’s complaint that the U.S. Coast Guard has refused to provide lawful, taxpayer-funded public records. Since February, we have been asking the Coast Guard to answer basic questions about its offshore… Read more »

Will the Federal Government’s FOIA Sheriff Force the Coast Guard to Follow the Law?

2016-10-11

Today, we sent a letter to the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) to ask for mediation services to force the U.S. Coast Guard’s to comply with our lawful records requests under the Freedom of Information Act. OGIS, which is the federal government’s FOIA Ombudsman, harshly criticized the Coast Guard in a September 2015 report… Read more »

Coast Guard Claim of “No External Participation” Contradicted by Shipping Lobbyist

2016-09-21

Lobbyist was “Very Engaged” in Anti-Offshore Wind Energy Study In 2009, not long after President Obama declared the creation of an offshore wind energy industry a national priority, shipping industry lobbyists began working to block it. When the U.S. Interior Department began an accelerated leasing process the following year “to facilitate siting, leasing, and construction… Read more »

Is Shipping Industry Lobbyist Working to Sink Offshore Wind Energy?

2016-09-12

Ms. Carpenter is said to have been was “very engaged” with a Coast Guard report that could dramatically limit offshore wind energy development.

Shipping Industry Lobbyists Influence Coast Guard to Limit Offshore Wind Energy

2016-09-6

Newly uncovered research points toward pervasive influence by shipping industry lobbyists over a U.S. Coast Guard study ostensibly designed to recommend how to safely integrate a new offshore wind energy industry with shipping off the Eastern Seaboard. If the study’s recommendations are codified into policy, a robust offshore wind energy industry off the coasts of… Read more »

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