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US approves first major offshore wind farm

It is billed as the launch of a new domestic low emission energy industry

The Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts is intended to create enough electricity to power 400,000 homes in New England. Does this herald the dawn of a lower emission energy industry in the States? A question for Helen Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association. China's population grew at its slowest pace in decades according to results of its census. Dr Lauren Johnson of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London explains the impact on the country's economy. Plus, in the wake of the row over the failed creation of a European Super League for some of the continent's top football teams, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Ed Butler examines what it revealed about the real state of finances in football, and the power of fans to change things.

All this and more discussed with our two guests on different sides of the globe: Enda Curran, chief Asia economics correspondent for Bloomberg News, in Hong Kong and Hayley Woodin – executive editor of Business in Vancouver, in Canada.

(Picture: an offshore wind farm. Credit: Getty Images.)

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  • Wed 12 May 2021 00:06GMT

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