I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, May 13th.

If you're following the news from D.C. this week, you probably know that the Republicans in the House of

Representatives stripped Liz

Cheney of her leadership post yesterday because she won't support the charade that President Trump

would have won last year's election, or not for massive election fraud that nobody's been able to

find. And we'll talk about that, but what all the Trump versus Cheney coverage might have made you miss from Washington was a really big climate story with implications for the New York, New Jersey area as well as the nation as a whole.

President Biden this week approved the nation's first really big offshore wind farm. It would be off the coast of Martha's Vineyard

in Massachusetts, and they say provide enough power for 400,000 homes to be heated with electricity.

Now, according to the New York Times, that's about 20 times as much power as the two existing

offshore wind farms are producing combined right now 20 times

in the waters near Virginia and Rhode Island, those two that are already in place.

And here's the local hook.

The president also designated some areas off Long Island and New Jersey for the next sets of big wind farms.

Some fishing industry and beach community officials don't like it.

But joining me now as a member of Congress, who does.

So with us now to talk about this unlikely pair of stories, the Liz Cheney story and the Wind Farm story,

is Long Island Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, Democrat from Nassau County, a big proponent of wind farm

development. Her district does include part of the South Shore from roughly Atlantic Beach

and Long Beach, out to around Jones Beach. Congresswoman, always a pleasure. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much, Brian. It's always great to be with you. And let's start with the wind farms.

For those who don't know about them, what exactly is a wind farm? So I'm hoping that more

and more people get to understand what this is. First, I just want to say, as you mentioned, Brian,

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