CARY -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a meeting of corporate chief executives here yesterday that the Obama administration is clearing away red tape to speed progress on alternative-energy production.
Salazar spoke to the Business Council, a group of 150 chief executives formed during the Great Depression to advise the federal government.
Salazar said that the Interior Department has cleared out bureaucratic confusion holding up potential offshore renewable-energy projects.
He said that the first exploratory leases were awarded for renewable wind-energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf off New Jersey and Delaware.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu was also scheduled to speak to the group about the nation's energy needs.
Salazar and Chu also planned to tour a solar farm in Cary with Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.
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