With extreme heat creating weather emergencies in much of the country, as well as globally, and with his expansive climate change agenda stalled in Congress, President Joe Biden announced on June 20 new executive actions that include adding millions to a federal resilient infrastructure fund, beefing up U.S. Labor Dept. workplace heat protections and expediting new wind energy construction in the Gulf of Mexico and along the southeast Atlantic coast.
Biden announced the initial actions at the decommissioned Brayton Point coal-fired power plant site in Somerset, Mass., where a planned power cable manufacturing plant will be built to enable three utility-scale offshore wind projects in New England to connect to onshore power grids. Italy-based Prysmian Group will manufacture 248 miles of heavy-duty cables at the facility, which the firm said would have final investment of $300 million.