CLIMATE: New Hampshire plans to use $3 million from the federal Inflation Reduction Act to create a new climate action plan, 14 years after developing but failing to act on its previous plan. (Energy News Network)

ALSO: Philadelphians who can’t afford air conditioning and live in “heat island” neighborhoods struggled to stay cool last week as wildfire smoke made it unsafe to open their windows. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

EFFICIENCY:
• Massachusetts climate advocates and city and state officials push back against a report arguing net-zero building codes could make new homes unaffordable, saying the study failed to account for energy savings and incentives. (Boston Globe)
• A northern Vermont village unveils 24 new all-electric affordable apartments, with efficient measures meant to keep utility costs low. (News & Citizen)

UTILITIES:
• Public utility commissioners who decide whether states get their power from renewables and fossil fuels and make rate decisions are overwhelmingly White and male, and few have environmental backgrounds, a pair of studies find. (Energy News Network)
• Connecticut’s governor signs a law to bar investor-owned utilities from using customer revenue for lobbying and other political expenses. (Grist)
• Philadelphia advocates push electric utility PECO to buy renewable power and meet with stakeholders as it prepares for its next power procurement. (WHYY)

OFFSHORE WIND:
• Connecticut will contribute another $30 million to redevelop the New London State Pier as an offshore wind hub, bringing the originally $93 million project’s price tag to $309 million. (CT Examiner)
• New Jersey lawmakers narrowly opt to let wind developer Ørsted keep federal tax incentives for its Ocean Wind I project that the company otherwise would have had to return to ratepayers. (Associated Press)
• New Jersey-based offshore wind developer Atlantic Shores asks state lawmakers for incentives similar to Ørsted’s. (Associated Press) 

SOLAR:
• Developers look to build a 150 MW solar array — one of New York’s largest — outside Ithaca. (Ithaca Times)
• A 1 MW solar farm opens on a former landfill in Norway, Maine, a day after lawmakers debated curtailing the state’s solar subsidies. (Bangor Daily News)

FOSSIL FUELS:
• Queens public housing residents hear from the new owner of the nearby gas- and oil-powered Ravenswood Generating Station about plans to replace one of its generating units with offshore wind next year. (Gothamist)
• Hartford, Connecticut, residents raise concerns about plans to route a gas pipeline under a public high school to serve the University of Hartford. (Hartford Courant)

BIOFUELS: Attorneys general from five Northeast states are among a coalition planning to sue the U.S. EPA over insufficient emissions standards for wood-burning stoves. (Associated Press)

COMMENTARY:
• The Connecticut Green Bank’s funding of waste-to-energy projects constitutes greenwashing, writes the leader of the state’s Sierra Club chapter. (CTMirror)
• A Maine youth climate advocate calls for better funding of state agencies that guard natural resources and promote clean energy adoption. (Central Maine)
• After a poll shows many Marylanders are hesitant to switch to electric vehicles, an architect argues the state is addressing affordability and charging concerns. (Maryland Matters)

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