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WIND: The developers behind the 704 MW Revolution Wind project install the first foundation needed for the facility’s 65 turbines. (Providence Journal)

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ALSO:

• During a visit to the now operational South Fork wind project, a Connecticut lawmaker says the project was never “excellent” but is “paying off” given its tax revenue and related local economic activity. (CT Examiner)
• In Maine, state officials and labor leaders describe a future of good-quality blue collar jobs in Searsport, the potential future home of the state’s offshore wind hub facing criticism over plans to site it on an undeveloped island. (Maine Morning Star)

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CLIMATE:

• Portland, Maine is considering a novel program to fund climate initiatives with proceeds from renewable energy credits from city-owned solar arrays. (Energy News Network)
• A top Massachusetts lawmaker teases a yet-to-be-detailed climate package to be introduced at the end of the legislative session. (Boston Herald)

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OIL & GAS: Pennsylvania lawmaker introduces legislation to bar local governments from receiving any state oil revenues if they sue oil companies, responding to a climate lawsuit filed by Bucks County against the fossil fuel industry. (E&E News, subscription)

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TIDAL: The firm testing tidal energy turbines on Lake Erie says their prototype is better than that of their competitors because it doesn’t need to be plunged as deeply and is less visually intrusive. (Go Erie)

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GRID:

• The owners of the Brandon Shores coal plant in Maryland want to close the facility in 2025, but ineffective planning for a renewable energy heavy grid means it may need to stay online for several more years. (Canary Media)
• Boston’s history of land removal and expansion means much of the city sits just above historic flood lines — leaving its grid infrastructure particularly vulnerable to floods and extreme weather. (RTO Insider, subscription)
• Vermont’s utility commission is looking for three new members to represent different stakeholders on a statewide transmission system planning committee. (news release)

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SOLAR:

• The NY Green Bank will provide $100 million in financing to help a developer build 79 MW worth of community solar projects. (news release)
• A northern New York school district will soon decide whether to build a 5 MW solar array on a currently unused field. (NCPR)
• A solar manufacturing firm’s director says a Pittsburgh plant upgrade underway is its most substantial expansion yet, allowing them to create enough torque tubes on site for 4 GW worth of panels. (Solar Power World)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: New York City records show that neighborhood stores and major online retailers alike are ignoring summons and cease and desist orders issued over uncertified e-bike battery sales. (The City)

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BUILDINGS: In response to climate protests, a Baltimore art museum drafts a sustainability plan that its director says will hopefully include energy efficiency measures and rooftop solar. (Baltimore Sun)

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COMMENTARY: A New Jersey doctor argues a free market approach to developing more clean energy doesn’t account for the “lives lost and illnesses caused by fossil fuel pollution.” (NJ Spotlight)

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SOLAR: Solar developer Silicon Ranch’s planned 110 MW solar farm for customers of a Tennessee electric cooperative establishes a bulwark for community driven solar in the heart of the largely renewables-reluctant Tennessee Valley Authority’s service area. (Canary Media)

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ALSO:

• The Sierra Club sues Mississippi over the lack of public comment ahead of regulators’ decision to end subsidies for solar installations. (WLBT)
• Jacksonville, Florida’s municipal utility finalizes agreements for three new solar facilities. (WTLV)

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OIL & GAS:

• A barge collides with a bridge pillar in a Texas port city, causing a partial collapse and spilling oil into Galveston Bay. (Associated Press)
• The presence of oil pipelines slows a Texas city’s Main Street construction project. (KTXS)

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CLEAN ENERGY:

• President Joe Biden raises tariffs and import taxes on Chinese-made electric vehicles and solar panels largely to protect states like Georgia, where billions of dollars of electric vehicle and solar manufacturing facilities are being built. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Appalachian Power solicits up to 1,100 megawatts of wind, solar and battery storage to meet renewable energy mandates in Virginia. (Cardinal News)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• An investment group announces it will provide “well above” $300,000 for a New Orleans company that’s developing silicon as a component in electric vehicle batteries. (The Advocate)
• A Tennessee fire department proposes using fire blankets to snuff electric vehicle fires to mitigate the spread of hazardous materials and protect against toxic fumes. (WTVF)

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WIND: A newly completed 160 MW wind farm near Houston, Texas, was designed to withstand the region’s weather, including safety features for hurricanes. (KTRK)

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NUCLEAR: A company will use a supercomputer at a Tennessee laboratory to train its artificial intelligence tool to guide nuclear power companies through applications for construction and operating licenses. (Knoxville News Sentinel)

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CLIMATE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs legislation to erase the phrase “climate change” from state policy and instead promote “an adequate, reliable and cost-effective supply of energy for the state,” even as the state feels the brunt of rising seas and warming temperatures. (Miami Herald, Associated Press)

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GRID:

• The U.S. Energy Department announces a West Virginia utility will receive up to $5 million to rebuild 23 miles of grid infrastructure. (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
• A worker is killed at a Texas power plant, one week after five workers were injured in a silo collapse and one year since another worker was killed in a boiler explosion last year. (KBTX)

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EMISSIONS: Virginia will likely see more days rated with poor air quality, due more to the recent revision of federal pollution standards than to increased pollution. (WHRO)

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COMMENTARY: The electric vehicle industry’s recent slowdown represents just a temporary delay in the clean vehicle transition as oil prices continue to fluctuate and EV technology rapidly advances, writes a quality manager at a Kentucky factory. (Courier Journal)

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MINING: Copper isn’t being mined quickly enough to keep up with U.S. policies for transitioning to electric vehicles and clean energy, creating a potential bottleneck for Michigan automakers unless recycling improves and deeper mines are tapped, a University of Michigan researcher says. (Bridge)

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OIL & GAS:

• The CEO of a North Dakota cooperative utility announces that the organization will build a 1,400 MW natural gas plant, marking its largest capital investment to date. (KFGO)
• Eastern Ohio city officials are unsatisfied with a state agency’s response to their concerns and calls for action to clean up a fracking waste processing facility that the state attorney general says threatens the area’s drinking water. (Times Leader)
• A Federal Reserve official says he looks to North Dakota and the Bakken region’s oil industry to provide vital insight into the health of the U.S. economy. (North Dakota Monitor)

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PIPELINES:

• Tribal leaders and environmental justice groups urge a Canadian consulate in Detroit to recognize long standing treaties with First Nations and retract a 1977 treaty that allows Line 5 to operate in the Great Lakes. (Michigan Advance)
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental assessment of the Dakota Access pipeline now is likely to stretch into 2025. (E&E News, subscription)

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CLIMATE: For the Great Lakes region, a repeat of 2023 this year is possible as wildfire smoke threatens to continue undoing decades of progress on air quality improvement. (Bridge)

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COAL: The USDA hosts a two-day workshop in southern Illinois aimed at helping the region find new economic opportunities amid the decline of coal plants and mining. (WPSD)

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CLEAN ENERGY:

• Students across the U.S. are turning to community colleges for training in electrification, wind and solar installations and energy efficiency. (Associated Press)
• Two school districts in Lansing and southwestern Michigan receive federal funding to invest in solar, geothermal and energy efficiency projects. (City Pulse; The ‘Gander)

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EMISSIONS: American Electric Power is among the latest electric utilities to join a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new rules for cutting pollution from coal and gas plants. (E&E News, subscription)

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GRID: Wisconsin utility We Energies deploys high-tech acoustic cameras that scan distribution grid equipment to identify potential problems and improve reliability. (WISN)

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UTILITIES: American Electric Power sells its distributed resources business that owns more than 300 MW of solar and storage projects across the U.S. for what will amount to about $315 million. (Utility Dive)

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SOLAR: The U.S. has surpassed 5 million solar installations, with more than half of those coming online since 2020, according to a new industry report. (Power Magazine)

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ALSO:

• The Biden administration is expected to announce today that it will end a tariff exemption for double-sided solar panels, with a White House official saying the tariffs are needed to ensure a secure supply chain. (The Hill)
• A 110 MW solar farm for customers of a Tennessee electric cooperative establishes a bulwark for community-driven solar in the heart of the largely renewables-reluctant Tennessee Valley Authority’s service area. (Canary Media)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• Honda says it will invest $65 billion developing electric vehicles over the next several years, with the first North American models to arrive in 2026. (Associated Press)
• Copper isn’t being mined quickly enough to keep up with U.S. policies for transitioning to electric vehicles and clean energy, creating a potential bottleneck for automakers, a University of Michigan researcher says. (Bridge)
• GM holds an event in California to showcase electric vehicles’ ability to provide backup power for homes. (The Verge)

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OIL & GAS:

• Senate Republicans introduce a resolution to overturn Interior Department rules that would increase costs for drilling on public lands. (E&E News, subscription)
• Republican lawmakers urge FERC to move forward on applications for liquified natural gas export projects. (Reuters)
• An environmental group says the oil industry would gain a $110 billion windfall from policy concessions offered by former President Donald Trump as he encouraged executives to donate $1 billion to his campaign. (The Guardian)

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CLIMATE:

• A new report says industrial carbon emissions will decline only 5-10% by 2040 under current policies, with the sector on track to surpass transportation as having the largest carbon footprint by the end of the decade. (Canary Media)
• A coalition of power companies has joined a lawsuit filed last week to limit heat-trapping emissions from power plants. (E&E News, subscription)
• Portland, Maine is considering a novel program to fund climate initiatives with proceeds from renewable energy credits from city-owned solar arrays. (Energy News Network)

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WIND: The developers behind the 704 MW Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island install the first foundation needed for the facility’s 65 turbines. (Providence Journal)

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TRANSMISSION: Nevada advocates criticize the federal Bureau of Land Management for proposing that the Greenlink West transmission line run through a national monument while avoiding a mining site. (Nevada Independent)

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JOBS: Community colleges around the country are offering training programs in clean energy technology, in response to a surge in job demand since the passage of federal climate legislation. (Associated Press)

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CLEAN ENERGY: Midwest states have received nearly $30 billion in private investments to boost clean energy manufacturing since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in late 2022. (Inside Climate News)

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UTILITIES:

• Critics of an Ohio bill to reform utility ratemaking say it could make it harder for some groups to participate and wouldn’t stop companies from adding charges to bills. (Energy News Network)
• Wisconsin utility We Energies seeks an additional $418.6 million from customers over the next two years to pay for new generation and grid improvements and offset rising labor costs and inflation. (Journal Sentinel)

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POLITICS: Ohio’s HB 6 scandal remains politically fraught for GOP Attorney General Dave Yost, who helped to prosecute four people involved but has ignored questions about his name surfacing in a federal trial and remained silent about the law itself. (Ohio Capital Journal)

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OIL AND GAS: North Dakota’s top oil and gas regulator, Gov. Doug Burgum and former President Trump during an oil and gas event Thursday railed against government regulations’ potential to hold back the industry. (North Dakota Monitor)

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SOLAR:

• Meta signs an agreement with a renewable energy developer to build two Indiana solar projects totaling 210 MW. (ESG Dive)
• A southern Illinois school district inks a 25-year agreement to install solar at three campuses that could save up to $50,000 a year in electricity costs. (WJBD)

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TRANSPORTATION: The influx of electric bikes in Minnesota and elsewhere are challenging cities and transit agencies to improve bike parking, bus bike racks and more. (MinnPost)

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Michigan officials announce $12 million more in funding to improve local health, monitor pollution and improve indoor air quality in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. (Michigan Advance)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announces nearly $16 million more for electric vehicle charging stations that moves the state closer to a goal of having public stations available every 50 miles. (WLWT)

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WIND: The supervisor of a northwestern Iowa airport raises concerns about a proposed wind farm’s potential to disrupt helicopter ambulances and other flights. (Radio Iowa)

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STORAGE: Ohio regulators approve plans for an 85 MW battery storage facility outside Dayton. (Daily News)

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NUCLEAR: The company working to reopen a shuttered southwestern Michigan nuclear plant has hired about 150 people since the effort began and now employs more than 360 people at the site. (WOOD-TV8)

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COMMENTARY: An Ohio clean energy advocate says utility-scale solar projects can play a vital role in helping the state meet a forecasted spike in electricity demand. (Columbus Dispatch)

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COAL: The federal Bureau of Land Management proposes ending new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana following a court order requiring the agency to redo a Trump-era land use plan. (WyoFile)

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ALSO: Utah lawmakers hold a special session to tweak a new bill allowing the state to buy a retiring coal plant to extend its life. (Utah State Dispatch)

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TRANSITION: New Mexico advocates urge regulators to require the state’s largest utility to develop a large-scale solar array in the northwest part of the state to replace generation and school funding lost with the 2022 closure of the San Juan coal plant. (Albuquerque Journal)

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UTILITIES: California lawmakers kill a bill that would have required legislators to review a controversial new fixed electric utility fee. (Los Angeles Times)

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EFFICIENCY: Portland, Oregon’s climate action fund plans to invest $140 million over the next five years on efficiency upgrades for low-income households. (Washington State Standard)

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SOLAR:

• Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs legislation allowing residents to subscribe to community-owned solar arrays. (news release)
• A firm proposes a floating 25 MW solar array on a northern California sanitation district’s ponds. (Napa Valley Register)
• A study finds California’s net-metering policy slashing rooftop solar incentives has spurred a significant increase in residential battery storage installations. (news release)
• The U.S. Energy Department awards $5.2 million to five Western startups to fund solar manufacturing research and development. (news release)
• A Montana electric cooperative plans to develop a third community solar project. (KPAX)

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OIL & GAS:

• U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, introduces legislation that would overturn new Biden administration rules increasing federal oil and gas royalties and reclamation bonds. (E&E News, subscription)
• The University of Wyoming partners with the state and a private firm to develop and test methods of stimulating oilfield production by injecting carbon dioxide and other gasses. (news release)

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MINING:

• A lithium mining firm stakes about 400 claims on 8,000 acres of federal land in Nevada adjacent to Death Valley National Park, raising concerns from residents and advocates. (Las Vegas Review Journal, news release)
• U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, urges federal land managers to extend the public input period for a proposed battery-grade manganese mine in the southern part of the state. (Tucson Sentinel)

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TRANSPORTATION: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs several bills creating new channels to fund public transit, including an oil production and a rental car fee. (Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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HYDROGEN: An Oregon natural gas utility unveils a blue hydrogen-fuel production project that incorporates captured carbon into asphalt. (news release)

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POLICY: Vermont lawmakers pass a bill making utilities purchase only renewably sourced power by 2035, though the governor is expected to veto the bill over cost concerns. (Seven Days)

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ALSO: A top Connecticut Democrat says he intends to force a vote on two bills that Republican lawmakers want to block, including one that declares a climate crisis in the state. (CT Mirror)

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FOSSIL FUELS:

• The identification and prioritization of which abandoned oil and gas wells to plug in Pennsylvania has taken on “new urgency” as the federal government directs hundreds of millions of dollars to plugging projects. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• ExxonMobil plans to close a New Jersey research facility by 2028 as it consolidates offices to its Houston headquarters. (My Central Jersey)
• Two engineers of an oil tanker plead guilty to charges related to dumped “oily waste” along the New Jersey coast and trying to cover it up. (NYDN)

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SOLAR:

• Rhode Island lawmakers advance a bill to increase oversight of solar panel sales companies amid concern of deceptive sales tactics and a rise in consumer complaints. (Rhode Island Current)
• A Massachusetts town votes to instate a temporary moratorium on large solar and storage projects to give officials time to codify new rules and regulations around their development and operation. (Greenfield Recorder)

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BUILDINGS: Pennsylvania lawmakers advance minimum appliance efficiency standards that would conserve enough energy to power more than 56,000 homes in a year. (WTAJ)

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BIOENERGY: A trio of developers detail plans to bring a combined heat and power system to northern Maine that would be fueled by waste wood from the state’s forest industry and “enabled by super-critical carbon dioxide.” (Mainebiz)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Six newly installed electric vehicle fast chargers at a New York City wastewater facility help the city reach 2,000 municipal chargers. (news release)

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TRANSIT: Although New York City is poised to kick off traffic congestion pricing next month, similar ideas in Boston are having a tough time getting off the ground. (Boston Globe)

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WIND: The head of an anti-wind group files an open meetings law complaint against Nantucket over a wind development working group’s meeting that she says should’ve been public. (Nantucket Current)

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RENEWABLE ENERGY: New York energy officials grant $175,000 to a Finger Lakes-area town to help it continue undertaking renewable energy and decarbonization projects. (Finger Lakes Times)

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COMMENTARY:

• A Consumer Energy Alliance executive says pending Connecticut legislation focused on helping a nuclear facility stay open “could be good” for state residents, but has elements that need improvement. (CT Mirror)
• A proposal within Connecticut’s omnibus climate bill to set an electric heat pump installation target will help reduce reliance on home heating oil and lower consumer costs, a Sierra Club committee chair writes. (CT Mirror)
• A Pennsylvania editorial board argues that in cases where abandoned oil and gas wells are located on land no longer owned by the driller, the new owners should bear much of the cost of remediation, but the state should help pay too. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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SOLAR: A northern Maine community of around 11,400 homes and businesses was able to run on only solar power last week for about 12 cumulative hours, a first-ever occurrence for utility Versant. (Maine Public Radio)

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OFFSHORE WIND: New Hampshire lawmakers and business leaders want state energy officials to take a more active role in encouraging offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine compared to the “market-based approach” to electricity decarbonization being used. (NHPR)

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GRID:

• PJM Interconnection and Midcontinent Independent System Operator tell stakeholders that they will for the first time work together to identify near-term transmission upgrades to transfer power between their networks. (Utility Dive)
• More Connecticut towns are banning or restricting the use of gas-powered landscaping equipment, although some have faced backlash for trying. (New Haven Register)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• A Maryland oversight agency says the state’s electric vehicle incentive programs have lost too much money to go on, recommending the five-year pilot be discontinued. (E&E News, subscription)
• As the legislative session comes to an end, Connecticut lawmakers fail to take a vote on forming a committee to study a transition to electric vehicles. (CT Mirror)

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TRANSPORTATION:

• One compliance deadline has already passed and another looms for Massachusetts’ transit-oriented development law, and two communities are already considered to be out of compliance. (WBUR)
• A Connecticut environmental board warns that warming climate conditions are leading to poor air quality, recommending more mass transit and electric vehicle use to help reduce per-capita emissions. (New Haven Register)

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GAS: A Connecticut county’s farm bureau wants the state to support more anaerobic digesters on farms to turn wasted food into electricity, heat and fertilizer. (CT News Junkie)

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CLIMATE:

• New data-gathering efforts and tools highlight how New York City’s most marginalized neighborhoods are also the least able to mitigate or adapt to local climate impacts. (New York Times)
• A federal judge denies a request by several major oil industry corporations to move New York City’s lawsuit seeking compensation for climate change out of state court. (E&E News, subscription)

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UTILITIES: A consortium of four southeast Pennsylvania counties signs a five-year deal with a retail energy supplier to help them purchase more renewable power. (WHYY)

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HYDROPOWER: Both federal- and state-level public comment periods are open this summer as the lengthy relicensing process draws closer to an end for three hydropower dams in Massachusetts’ Franklin County. (Mass Live)

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TIDAL: Federal energy regulators grant an eight-year license to a nonprofit firm to test out tidal energy turbines in the Cape Cod Canal. (Cape Cod Times)

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COMMENTARY: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s former president encourages Marylanders to ditch gas-powered landscaping equipment to reduce emissions and noise pollution. (Baltimore Sun)

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SOLAR: While a federal database shows around 0.02% of U.S. cropland is used for large solar projects, an analysis of four Midwest counties reveals much higher penetrations, worrying some farmers and advocates. (Reuters)

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WIND: Wind turbines only take up about 5% of the land where they’re built, meaning there’s room to co-locate farms and other facilities below them, a peer-reviewed study finds. (Washington Post)

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OIL & GAS: Advocates suggest establishing a new tax on oil and gas production in the world’s wealthiest countries, with a report finding the charge could raise $720 billion for climate mitigation by 2030. (Guardian)

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POLITICS:

• Climate advocates fear President Trump, should he win re-election, would dismantle the NOAA’s climate science work and ramp up fossil fuel permitting at the Department of Energy. (Guardian, E&E News)
• Trump’s re-election would mark another U-turn in climate policy and power plant regulations after reversals from the Obama to Trump administrations, and then from Trump to Biden. (New York Times)
• A political scientist says there’s a “zero-percent chance” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was unaware of millions of dollars of FirstEnergy contributions supporting his campaign. (Ohio Capital Journal)

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GRID: The U.S. power grid performed better during cold snaps this January than it did during winter storms over the past few years thanks to grid operators’ improvements, a report finds. (Utility Dive)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• Officials with electric vehicle maker Rivian reiterate their commitment to build a factory in Georgia despite recent financial troubles and a renewed focus on its existing Illinois plant. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, subscription)
• A $4 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant taking shape in a rural Kansas town is fueling speculation about whether a nearby low-income housing community could be sold for redevelopment. (Wichita Eagle)

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GEOTHERMAL: A Texas company uses software and sensor-equipped drilling tools to install geothermal heating and cooling systems in spaces previously considered too small to house such projects. (Canary Media)

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CLEAN ENERGY:

• The IRS publishes final guidance governing how clean energy tax credits can be sold and transferred between businesses and tax-exempt organizations. (Utility Dive)
• Kentucky faces the prospect of losing an aluminum smelter project — and 1,000 jobs that go with it — to another state if it can’t access enough clean energy, even as state lawmakers go to bat to keep coal-fired power plants open. (Louisville Courier Journal)

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CLIMATE: The Southeast faces one of the most rapid sea level surges in the world, an analysis finds, combining with increasingly severe storms to create epic floods. (Washington Post)

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EFFICIENCY: Advocates laud a new Virginia law that strengthens energy efficiency standards and mandates the development of a standardized test to measure the cost effectiveness of proposed efficiency programs. (Energy News Network)

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CLEAN ENERGY: The Biden administration unveils new federal permitting rules designed to prioritize projects with environmental benefits while adding reviews for ones that could worsen climate change. (New York Times)

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FOSSIL FUELS:

• G7 countries, including the U.S., agree to phase out coal in the early 2030s in a move aimed at pushing other countries to do the same. (CNN)
• Major fossil fuel companies have publicly supported global climate pledges while acknowledging internally that their own emissions reduction plans don’t go far enough toward meeting these goals, a U.S. Senate committee investigation finds. (Guardian)
• Satellite data show land in the Permian Basin oil and gas fields is sinking as drillers extract record-high volumes of oil, gas and produced water. (Wall Street Journal, subscription)

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NUCLEAR:

• Repurposing retired coal plants with advanced nuclear reactors could offset the economic losses coal-dependent communities are likely to face when facilities shut down, according to a study commissioned by utility regulators and state energy officials. (Utility Dive)
• After seven years of delays and $21 billion in cost overruns, Georgia Power’s $30 billion expansion of nuclear Plant Vogtle finally reaches commercial operation — but its problems are pushing other nuclear operators away from large facilities toward smaller designs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, E&E News)

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GRID: The U.S. Energy Department starts preparing for the rise of artificial intelligence and its projected energy demand, and begins exploring ways that AI could make power delivery and energy project permitting more efficient. (Axios)

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EMISSIONS: Companies’ return-to-office plans are often out of line with their own climate pledges, as multiple peer-reviewed studies find working from home can significantly reduce a worker’s emissions impact. (Grist/Fast Company)

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STORAGE: A company opens the first U.S. long duration, sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant in western Michigan in what officials call a “milestone for the battery industry.” (WWMT)

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UTILITIES: Several New England utilities plan to seek federal funds for a regional energy data platform to make it easier for consumers and contractors to estimate potential savings from efficiency upgrades or new electric technologies. (Energy News Network)

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• The founder of a failed electric vehicle leasing startup aimed at long-haul commuters shares why the company had to shut down, and why he believes innovation could allow similar companies to succeed. (Canary Media)
• A startup develops a technology that can turn streetlights into electric vehicle chargers. (Canary Media)
• An international student racing competition hosted by the New Hampshire Motor Speedway will include only hybrid and all-electric race cars designed by engineering students. (Boston Globe)

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