Energy and Global Warming News for June 10: Jumpstarting offshore wind; The best and worst of times for China's environmen

On World Oceans Day, a U.S. Plan for Wind

The Obama Administration has launched a new initiative to "jumpstart the offshore wind industry."

Speaking on World Oceans Day at the opening of this year's Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the governors of ten Atlantic states — Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina — to create an offshore...