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Sarah Shemkus

Sarah Shemkus

Sarah is a longtime journalist who covers business, technology, sustainability, and the places they all meet. She has covered the workings of small-town government in New Hampshire, the doings of alleged swindlers and con men, and the minutiae of local food systems. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Boston Globe, TheAtlantic.com, Slate, and other publications. Sarah covers the state of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts

Boston zoning change would require net-zero emissions from new buildings

By Sarah Shemkus

The initiative is among the most aggressive of existing or proposed strategies to reduce energy consumption in buildings, which are responsible for 70% of the city’s carbon output.

equity

Massachusetts solar loans program leaves banks with confidence to lend

By Sarah Shemkus

As the program ends, private solar lending will continue but low-income homeowners may be left behind.

Massachusetts

Innovative geothermal micro-district concept moves ahead in Massachusetts

By Sarah Shemkus

Utilities could prove useful partners in the projects, which involve drilling, trenching and laying pipe to bring underground heat into buildings.

News

Boston building owners get a one-stop shop for energy efficiency resources

By Sarah Shemkus

The Building Energy Retrofit Resource Hub is a partnership with utility Eversource designed to help further reduce the city’s carbon emissions from buildings.

transportation
a man holds a charging cable while standing next to a red vehicle

Massachusetts drivers are starting to buy electric cars again

By Sarah Shemkus

A state incentive program just saw its best two months since the coronavirus pandemic halted most car sales this spring.

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Top Headlines

Will Blackjewel leave Eastern Kentuckians to clean up its abandoned coal mines?

Source: Lexington Herald Leader

Ohio attorney general asks judge to block FirstEnergy surcharge in nuclear bailout scandal

Source: Reuters

Massachusetts governor vetoes climate bill, citing housing concerns

Source: WBUR

Will 2021 be the year for environmental justice legislation? States are already leading the way

Source: Inside Climate News

Amid production woes, U.S. coal deaths at historic low in 2020

Source: Associated Press

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Midwest Energy News

January 15 2021

Minnesota falls further behind on emission-reduction targets

EMISSIONS: • Minnesota is falling further behind on its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets largely because of increased natural gas usage and transportation emissions. (Star Tribune) • Transportation-related nitrogen dioxide emissions declined markedly in the St. Louis area over the past year during the pandemic, following trends in cities globally. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) POLITICS: Exelon […]

Southeast Energy News

January 15 2021

Coal bankruptcy could leave massive environmental mess for taxpayers and communities

COAL: Kentucky residents worry that bankrupt coal operator Blackjewel may abandon many of its unreclaimed surface mines, leaving a massive environmental mess for taxpayers and communities. (Lexington Herald-Leader) ALSO: A new report says the cost of reclaiming nearly half a million billion acres of mined land in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee may […]

Northeast Energy News

January 15 2021

Massachusetts Gov. Baker vetoes climate roadmap bill

CLIMATE: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker vetoes a comprehensive climate roadmap bill, saying its efficiency requirements would have burdened the housing sector and that the bill lacked tools for localities to address environmental justice issues. (Masslive.com) ALSO: • Maine and two private organizations are taking preliminary steps to include small woodlot owners to use their trees […]

Western Energy News

January 15 2021

Critics say Colorado’s new climate plan still too vague

CLIMATE: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis reveals a new plan to reduce greenhouse gas pollution with a goal of reaching 100% renewable energy by 2040, but critics say the roadmap is still not specific enough. (CBS Denver, Colorado Sun) ALSO: A new California program aiming to support Native American tribes’ clean energy efforts in the state […]

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Utilities reconsider campaign donations in wake of Capitol riot

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