Correction: Offshore Wind-Gulf of Mexico story

Aug 29, 2023, 1:37 PM | Updated: Aug 30, 2023, 9:52 am

FILE - Three wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm, Aug. 15, 2016. In a first-of-its kind auction for the Gulf of Mexico, a company bid $5.6 million Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 to lease federal waters off the Louisiana coast for wind energy generation. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS

(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

In a story published August 29, 2023, about a lease of federal offshore waters for wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a quote from the Business Network for Offshore Wind. The quote should have been attributed to the organization’s president and CEO, Liz Burdock.

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