U.S. President Joe Biden will announce the first sale of offshore wind rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. The sale will include a 102,480-acre lease near Lake Charles, Louisiana, and two nearly 200,000-acre leases near Galveston, Texas. The Biden administration has held three offshore wind lease auctions, including last year's largest auctions off the New York and New Jersey coasts and the first on California's Pacific coast. Biden will travel to Philadelphia to pitch the green economy to unionized workers who remain skeptical about the economics of the solar, wind and electric vehicle industries.