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How fossil fuels won round one of North Carolina’s Volkswagen settlement payout

By Elizabeth Ouzts

Legislative politics, industry influence, and financial pressures from an aging bus fleet helped shape spending.

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rows of yellow school buses, pictured from behind, fill the frame

Virginia advocates see room to improve on Dominion’s electric school bus plan

By Elizabeth McGowan

An alternative proposal would provide money for a massive diesel-to-electric conversion across the state.

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In Kansas, federal money helps make the case to test electric transit buses

By Karen Uhlenhuth

Wichita, Kansas, next month will become the state’s first city to roll out electric buses, with Topeka on track to follow it.

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Nebraska steers VW money to ‘clean diesel’ school bus subsidies

By Karen Uhlenhuth

Clean air advocates say the state should be spending more of its settlement money on electric vehicle infrastructure.

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Intrigue continues around plans for shuttered Chicago coal plant site

By Kari Lydersen

The property owner acknowledged that diesel-fired peaker plants could continue operating on the site even after redevelopment. More than six years after the celebrated closure of the Fisk coal plant in Chicago, residents are unhappy with plans for the site that include a logistics hub and the possibility of diesel-fired peaker plants continuing to operate there. NRG Energy, which acquired the site from previous owner Midwest Generation after the plant closed, has sold it to a real estate company specializing in logistics, the office of local alderman Danny Solis told the media outlet Block Club Chicago. The company has an agreement with Hilco Redevelopment Partners to “explore the potential for redevelopment of the Fisk site,” NRG spokesman David Knox told the Energy News Network, and he said the peakers could continue to operate even if the site is redeveloped. Hilco last year purchased the site of the other shuttered Chicago coal plant, Crawford, in the nearby Little Village neighborhood.

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Maryland bill would prevent more power plants from being built in majority-Black county

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Senate confirms former Michigan governor Granholm as Energy secretary

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Exelon to split in two, expects losses from Texas freeze

Source: Reuters

House Republicans held secret climate summit in Utah

Source: Washington Examiner

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February 26 2021

Kansas regulators reject Evergy’s bid for solar fees

SOLAR: Kansas regulators reject Evergy’s attempt to impose new fees on solar customers, saying issues involving potential cross-subsidization should be addressed in a later rate case. (Topeka Capital-Journal) ALSO: • Clean energy advocates sue Wisconsin regulators over third-party financing policies they argue are stifling renewable energy development. (Wisconsin State Journal) • Local officials in northwestern […]

Southeast Energy News

February 26 2021

Texas hearings spotlight across-the-board failures in power outages

GRID: Hearings in both chambers of the Texas state legislature spotlight failures by grid planners, electric utilities, natural gas suppliers, renewable energy and transmission operators in last week’s power outages. (Reuters)  ALSO: • Rolling blackouts affected power plants that could have been used to generate more electricity, according to one CEO who testified. (Associated Press) […]

Northeast Energy News

February 26 2021

Governors vote to make Delaware River Basin fracking ban permanent

FRACKING: Amid legal challenges to a 2010 fracking moratorium, the Delaware River Basin Commission votes to make the ban permanent, making a large portion of the Marcellus Shale off-limits to drilling. (Philadelphia Inquirer) ALSO: • A commission member representing the federal government abstains from voting, citing “additional time needed to coordinate with the new administration.” […]

Western Energy News

February 26 2021

As California faces a lithium boom, who benefits?

EQUITY: Lithium mining to provide batteries for electric vehicles could be an economic windfall for California’s Imperial Valley, but advocates warn of the effects on the region’s Latino population, which is already disproportionately impacted by pollution. (CalMatters) TRANSITION: As Colorado takes steps to support coal workers as the industry declines, union leaders and lawmakers want […]

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Senate confirms Granholm to lead Energy Department

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