Three wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island,...

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. Credit: AP/Michael Dwyer

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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