Yesterday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its approval of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Maryland Offshore Wind project. This milestone represents the final federal approval needed for the project, which will generate over 2 GW of offshore wind energy—enough to power over 718,000 homes—and support almost 2,680 jobs annually over seven years.

In this month's roundup of the best climate news stories, we're celebrating the election of Congressional climate champions, state level climate wins, federal action to advance clean air and water initiatives, and climate wins for Indigenous communities.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts legislature passed a landmark climate omnibus bill, reestablishing the state as a climate leader.

The Department of the Interior announced that it would hold an offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Maine on October 29th that could generate up to 13 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy equivalent to powering 4.5 million homes.

Every month, we round up the best good climate news stories we're celebrating. This month, we cover exciting progress in the clean energy transition, electric vehicle adoption, environmental justice, initiatives to improve public health, new tactics to cut climate-change-causing pollution, and wildfire preparedness and recovery.