The waters off California's coast could become vital in the battle against climate change. Last week, President Joe Biden announced an ambitious plan to open 250,000 acres of the state's coastal waters to wind development. If only it could get done faster. Under the plan, wind projects could be built in federal waters northwest of Morro Bay and west of Humboldt Bay. Within a decade, hundreds of huge floating turbines anchored to the Pacific Ocean floor by cables could generate 4,600 megawatts of electricity, sufficient to power 1.

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