And some economists are skeptical that wind farms can create jobs on the scale predicted by the Biden administration. “I think it’s an important message that these jobs will be good union jobs with good wages and benefits,” said Frank Callahan, president of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council. “It’s a big deal, and not just for Vineyard Wind. This is the icebreaker, it’s the first one, it’s charting the course,” Rafael McDonald, an electricity and renewable analyst at IHS Markit, said after the Biden administration released its initial environmental review in March. That would also accomplish a significant chunk of the President’s pledge to cut United States emissions roughly in half by 2035.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2021 09:30 UTC