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Auction of ‘Wind Lots’ Off Massachusetts Coast Nets Record $405 Million

Bill Gnade

In what is described as the "highest grossing competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters," the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management  have announced an auction of offshore Massachusetts "wind lots" has netted "$405 million in winning bids."

According to a press release from Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management acting director Walter Cruickshank, the December 14 auction of acreage suitable for the installation of electricity-producing wind turbines "could support approximately 4.1 gigawatts" of electrical energy that could power "nearly 1.5 million homes."

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Vermont Law School Under Investigation After Axing Tenured Faculty Positions

Bill Gnade

Vermont Law School is under investigation by the American Association of University Professors after the school's mid-year "restructuring" of tenured professors jobs left some of them in either lower-paying posts or out in the cold.

The association said in a release that the actions of school administrators had "deviated from widely observed standards of academic decision making, including those mandated by the bylaws of the Association of American Law Schools" and had  "failed to consult with the faculty as a whole about its plan for involuntarily restructuring the faculty."

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