ELECTRIC VEHICLES: A Rhode Island lawmaker proposes legislation that would restrict new car sales to all-electric models only by 2030, in addition to related transportation electrification measures. (ecoRI)
CLEAN ENERGY: Maine’s Bowdoin College plans to completely transition away from on-campus fossil fuel use by 2042, but first needs to make $100 million in renewable energy and efficiency upgrades. (Portland Press Herald)
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GAS:
• New York environmental officials postpone a decision on a permit for a Brooklyn LNG facility for the seventh time, saying they will wait until state utility commissioners determine the necessity of the work. (Politico, Gothamist)
• A gas driller wants to siphon millions of gallons of water a day from a western Pennsylvania creek, but state officials say it would harm a threatened fish. (WESA)
GRID: A Pennsylvania court upholds the state utility regulator’s earlier decision to reject two transmission line projects to help deliver power to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas. (Herald-Mail)
CLIMATE:
• Two different court cases begin today that seek to address the validity of Pennsylvania’s entrance into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. (WESA)
• Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is conducting research at several of its dairy farms to halve its dairy-related emissions. (Seven Days)
• In a first, an individual New York City district releases its own climate action plan for its neighborhoods. (Gothamist)
EQUITY: Once signed by the governor, an environmental justice law New York legislators recently approved will instate some of the strictest standards on cumulative community pollution in the country. (Grist)
TRANSPORTATION:
• Some New York environmentalists worry a bill intending to reduce on-road transportation’s intensity would actually create more environmental inequality and raise fuel costs. (Times Union)
• Continued safety issues on Boston’s transit system lead federal transportation officials to inform the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority that they will be instating “increased safety oversight.” (Boston Globe)
• A beach town trolley service that helps tourists get around without a car in southern Maine will shutter this summer because of a lack of drivers. (Portland Press Herald)
SOLAR:
• Two recently finished solar arrays are projected to save a Maine city roughly $4 million over two decades on its electricity bills. (WABI)
• A new pilot program aims to aggregate demand for solar and battery system storage installations in East Boston to make such projects more affordable for residents. (news release)
NUCLEAR: A blockchain company and the utility operating the Beaver Valley nuclear plant agree to build a large data center at the Pennsylvania facility. (Data Center Dynamics)
OFFSHORE WIND: US Wind and Ørsted will reconduct several data collection projects first completed in 2016-2017 on the Delaware coast as the companies develop offshore wind farms in the area. (Salisbury Daily Times)
HYDRO: In Watertown, New York, a consultant recommends city officials maintain ownership of a hydroelectric plant, saying it could provide numerous revenue streams. (NNY360)
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