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   WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday launched a formal   
   partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing   
   offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden’s   
   plan for climate change.   
      
   Biden, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other top   
   administration officials met with governors, wind industry   
   officials and labor leaders Thursday at the White House. The   
   session focused on ways to expand important segments of the   
   offshore industry, including manufacturing facilities, ports and   
   workforce training and development.   
      
   “Together we’re stepping up. We’re about to build a better   
   America," Biden said. “It’s not just about the future. It’s   
   about right now."   
      
   The partnership comprises governors of both parties from   
   Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New   
   Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania   
   and Rhode Island.   
      
   Missing from the compact is Virginia, where Republican Gov.   
   Glenn Youngkin has moved to withdraw the state from a regional   
   carbon-limiting initiative meant to combat climate change.   
      
   Spokesperson Macaulay Porter said Youngkin supports the offshore   
   wind industry, and his administration has participated in calls   
   with the White House on the topic.   
      
   “The commonwealth is already a leader in offshore wind, and the   
   Youngkin administration is focused on ... this emerging sector   
   in a way that is consistent with promoting jobs for Virginia and   
   its right-to-work philosophy," Porter said, referring to a state   
   policy that promotes a worker’s right not to be required to join   
   a labor union.   
      
   Youngkin is “fully committed to Virginia’s current offshore wind   
   project” and will continue to support any future project “that   
   meets Virginia’s economic needs and protects ratepayers from   
   high energy costs," Porter said.   
      
   In working with states and the private sector, the White House   
   said it will “provide Americans with cleaner and cheaper energy,   
   create good-paying jobs and invest billions in new American   
   energy supply chains," including construction of wind turbines,   
   shipbuilding and servicing.   
      
   Biden has set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind   
   power by 2030, enough to provide electricity to 10 million   
   homes, support 77,000 jobs and spur $12 billion per year in   
   private investment in offshore wind. Offshore wind is a key   
   component in the Democratic president’s plan to make the   
   nation’s electric grid carbon free by 2035.   
      
   The Biden administration has approved two large-scale wind   
   projects, Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and South Fork Wind off   
   New York and Rhode Island. Both are under construction with   
   union labor. The Interior Department has begun reviews of   
   another 10 offshore projects that, if approved, would produce 22   
   gigawatts of clean energy.   
      
   Danish wind developer Orsted signed a project labor agreement   
   last month with a national union representing 3 million people   
   in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore   
   wind farms with an American union workforce. Orsted currently   
   has six offshore projects in five states.   
      
   A national agreement signed with North America’s Building Trades   
   Unions covers contractors working on those projects and future   
   ones, with no termination date on the project labor agreement.   
   It sets the terms and conditions for union workers to build   
   offshore wind farms, with targets to ensure a diverse workforce.   
   It contains provisions for training to ensure they can construct   
   the complex infrastructure, which costs billions of dollars.   
      
   “We recognize that states are huge players here," said David   
   Hayes, a White House climate adviser. With a formal partnership,   
   the Biden administration can “work with the governors on   
   policies going forward and help ensure that there is an American-   
   made supply chain for this brand-new industry," Hayes said.   
      
   New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said he and other East   
      
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