Establish an offshore wind career training grant program.

To establish an offshore wind career training grant program, and for other purposes.

Keating introduced legislation to create a federal grant program for offshore wind career training.

H.R. 3068 (IH) - Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act - BILLS-116hr3068ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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Bill strongly supports energy policies that increase the use of clean, renewable sources, such as solar and wind; decrease our reliance on fossil fuels; create hundreds of clean energy jobs throughout Massachusetts; and lead to important cost-savings for our local municipalities.

Supports policies promoting solar and wind energy and related clean-energy jobs.

Issues | Congressman Bill Keating
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Secured $1mil for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s Center for Renewable and Responsible Energy to train the next generation of workers for the offshore wind industry.

The source describes funding for offshore wind workforce training, aligning with a commitment to support such training.

Accomplishments – Bill Keating for Congress
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AP reported that the Trump administration would pay Invenergy $765 million to cancel four offshore wind leases, part of a broader $2.6 billion effort to stop offshore wind development.

A fresh federal move in the lookback window is actively rolling back offshore wind rather than expanding it, which is inconsistent with a delivered offshore-wind training-grant promise.

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Trump administration to buy back another energy company's offshore wind leases for 4 more projects
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AP reported that New York and six other states, including Massachusetts, sued over the Trump administration's deal to end a TotalEnergies offshore wind project, saying the move would eliminate jobs and damage energy goals.

This is another recent sign that the federal offshore-wind policy environment is moving in the opposite direction, with no concrete sign in the window of a new federal training grant program being established.

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New York sues over the Trump administration's deal to end an offshore wind project
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Ørsted's official press release announced a plan to launch a Long Island-based National Workforce Training Center for Offshore Wind.

This is the closest direct training-related action found, but it is a project-level training center plan rather than a federal career-training grant program.

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Sunrise Wind Announces Plan to Launch Long Island-Based National Workforce Training Center for Offshore Wind
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The Interior Department said Sunrise Wind was approved as the nation's seventh commercial-scale offshore wind project and that its cumulative benefits would include investment in offshore wind, job creation and workforce development.

Federal approval of Sunrise Wind shows offshore wind workforce-related activity moved forward, but it still does not show a dedicated federal grant program matching the promise.

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Biden-Harris Administration Approves Seventh Offshore Wind Project | U.S. Department of the Interior
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