Construction is finished on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump’s time in office.

Offshore construction was completed Friday night on Vineyard Wind with the installation of the final blades, Craig Gilvarg, a spokesperson for the project, said Saturday.

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Trump, who often talks about his hatred of wind power, has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built. Vineyard Wind was one of five major East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns. Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, essentially concluding that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt.

Another one of the five, Revolution Wind, began sending power for the first time to New England’s electric grid on Friday and will scale up in the weeks ahead until it is fully operational.

While Revolution Wind just began delivering power, Vineyard Wind has been doing so for over a year as more turbines were finished. Vineyard Wind is a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, located 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. It has 62 turbines that will generate a total of 800 megawatts. That is enough clean electricity to power about 400,000 homes.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has said the completion of this project is essential to ensuring the state can lower costs, meet rising energy demand, advance its climate goals and sustain thousands of good-paying jobs.

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The Trump administration has been particularly critical of the Vineyard Wind project because of a blade failure. Fiberglass fragments of a blade broke apart and began washing onto Nantucket beaches in July 2024 during the peak of tourist season. Manufacturer GE Vernova agreed to pay $10.5 million in a settlement to compensate island businesses that suffered losses.

Vineyard Wind submitted state and federal project plans to build an offshore wind farm in 2017. Massachusetts had committed to offshore wind by requiring its utilities to solicit proposals for up to 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2027. In what might have been a fatal blow, federal regulators delayed Vineyard Wind by holding off on issuing a key environmental impact statement in 2019. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. William Keating said at the time the Trump administration was trying to stymie the renewable energy project just as it was coming to fruition.

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The Biden administration signed off on it in 2021, as it sought to ramp up offshore wind as a climate change solution. Construction began onshore in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

The first U.S. offshore wind farm opened off Rhode Island’s Block Island in 2016, at the end of President Barack Obama’s tenure. But with just five turbines, it’s not a commercial-scale wind farm. The nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm officially opened in March 2024, when President Joe Biden was in office. Danish wind energy developer Orsted and the utility Eversource built that 12-turbine wind farm, called South Fork Wind, 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Montauk Point, New York.

Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies his first day in office with a spate of executive orders aimed at boosting oil, gas and coal. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Friday night that Trump “reversed course on Joe Biden’s costly green energy agenda that gave preferential treatment to intermittent, unreliable energy sources and instead is aggressively unleashing reliable and affordable energy sources to lower energy bills, improve our grid stability and protect our national security.”

Oscars weekend is officially here.

With a record-breaking 16 nominations for “Sinners,” a whopping 13 nominations for “One Battle After Another” and tight competition in both the best actor and best actress categories, the 98th Academy Awards promises to be intense. Among this year’s highly competitive list of nominees are multiple films with ties to Massachusetts, including directors, writers and costume designers who once called the state home.

Plus, the Oscars’ Massachusetts connections continue outside of the competition aspect of the show, with multiple presenters hailing from the Bay State.

Here are all the nominees and presenters of the 2026 Academy Awards with Massachusetts ties.

2026 Oscars nominees with ties to Massachusetts

Sinners

One of the 16 awards which “Sinners” is nominated for is best costume design, recognizing the work of Springfield native Ruth E. Carter. The Massachusetts-born costume designer has previously won two Academy Awards for “Black Panther” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Carter’s “Sinners” nomination officially makes her the most-nominated Black woman in Oscars history, surpassing the record previously held by Rhode Island native Viola Davis.

Marty Supreme

A24 drama “Marty Supreme” – which is up for nine awards, including best picture – was directed by Boston University alum Josh Safdie. Safdie himself is nominated for three awards, including best director, as well as best original screenplay and best film editing alongside co-writer and co-editor Ronald Bronstein.

Hamnet

The writer and director of “Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao, also went to college in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. This year, Zhao is nominated in two categories: best director and best adapted screenplay. She is recognized as the first woman of color and second woman overall to win in the best director category, which she did for “Nomadland” back in 2021.

Zootopia 2

Harvard alum Jared Bush co-wrote and co-directed Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” which is nominated in the best animated feature film category.

2026 Oscars presenters with ties to Massachusetts

Chris Evans

Along with all the movies representing Massachusetts at the Oscars this year, Sudbury’s very own Chris Evans will present an award. A graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Evans was first introduced to acting at the Concord Youth Theater.

Conan O’Brien

The entire awards show will be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who was born and raised in Brookline. Best known as the host of many late night shows, the comedian also attended Harvard University, where he served as president of comedy group The Harvard Lampoon.

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How to watch the Oscars 2026

This year’s Academy Awards will air live on ABC and the ABC app on Sunday, March 15 at 7 p.m. The show will be preceded by the official live red carpet show at 6:30 p.m.

The awards ceremony will also be streamed live on Hulu and via FuboTV.

Stream the 2026 Oscars live

Rin Velasco of the USA TODAY Network contributed to this report.

Massachusetts lawmakers are once again debating whether the state should stop the twice-a-year clock change.

Senate President Karen E. Spilka on Friday announced her support for legislation (S.2157) that would end the practice of switching between standard time and daylight saving time. 

“Twice a year, Massachusetts residents scramble to adjust their routines, deal with disruptions to their kids’ sleep schedules, and have their lives unsettled generally,” Spilka said in a news release.

The bill, filed by State Senator John F. Keenan, would move Massachusetts to a permanent time system instead.

Supporters, like Keenan, say changing the clocks twice a year disrupts sleep schedules, daily routines, and public health.

“Observing Atlantic Standard Time year-round would decrease energy usage, reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and increase workplace productivity,” he said in the release.

Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has linked the time change to short-term increases in heart attacks, strokes, and hospital admissions. 

Other studies from the Stanford School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine have tied circadian rhythm disruptions to health issues including stroke risk, depression, and weight gain.

The proposal is currently being reviewed in the Senate after lawmakers moved the bill to the chamber’s rules committee.

But changing the system could also affect how daylight hours fall throughout the year — something that New Englanders value deeply, given our long winters.

What do you think? Should Massachusetts stop changing the clocks and adopt a permanent time system?

Do you support ending the twice-yearly clock change? Would you prefer permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time? How does the time change affect your daily routine?

Tell us by filling out the form or e-mailing us at [email protected], and your response may appear in a future Boston.com article.

Annie Jonas is a Community writer at Boston.com. She was previously a local editor at Patch and a freelancer at the Financial Times.