Delaware’s offshore wind debate continues expanding beyond renewable energy policy alone. Legal challenges involving local land use, state permitting, fisheries concerns, grid reliability, and rising economic pressures continue surrounding the US Wind project. As new developments unfold at the county, state, and federal levels, CRI remains actively involved in monitoring and challenging offshore wind approvals impacting Delaware communities and ratepayers.

A new Delaware battery storage proposal promises grid benefits and energy reliability — but the study behind it omitted the full cost to ratepayers. Using the study’s own assumptions, the projected cost approaches $3.8 billion over ten years.

HB 234 could permanently shift control over major government employee costs — including healthcare and pensions — away from elected lawmakers and Delaware taxpayers. In this article, Dr. Stacie Beck explains why making collective bargaining a constitutional right could increase debt, reduce budget flexibility, and weaken Delaware’s economic competitiveness for years to come.

Delaware has a law requiring struggling third-grade readers to be held back and given additional support—but no one is publicly tracking whether it’s actually working. While other states report results and show measurable gains, Delaware families and policymakers are left without clear answers. Without transparency and timely data, it’s impossible to know whether students are improving or simply being passed along.