Hundreds of high-paying union jobs are among the thousands of positions coming to New Bedford with the first industrial-scale offshore wind facility in the United States.
Lawmakers from D.C. and Beacon Hill were among those who showed up to a nearly empty New Bedford warehouse Thursday morning for a tour of Bristol Community College's latest project: a planned training facility for offshore wind green jobs.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday that it will resume its review of the 800-megawatt wind farm planned for 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard.
New Bedford's fishing industry is celebrating the announcement that Vineyard Wind has withdrawn from the federal permitting process and the process has ended.