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Small pipeline, big risks: Carbon capture project sparks concern in rural Illinois - Energy News (Apr 4) |
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Safety concerns are at the heart of opposition to a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline in central Illinois, which would connect an ethanol plant to a proposed sequestration site about six miles away.
The pipeline proposed by One Earth Energy is much shorter than carbon ... Read more ...
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Groups Connect Home Efficiency Need With Resources In Virginia - Energy News (Mar 25) |
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Home weatherization contractors in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, region are flush with heat pumps, triple-pane windows and insulation.
But they’re finding it challenging to identify and connect with low-income residents who could benefit from that full array of ... Read more ...
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Ohio landowners say solar opposition groups threaten their property rights - Energy News (Mar 21) |
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A pair of cousins who want to lease land for a contested solar project in central Ohio say a vocal minority is trying to interfere with their property rights.
“I have rights as an owner, farmer and investor that shouldn’t be limited by a small group of individuals who ... Read more ...
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What's the future of gas? In Minnesota, utilities have to share 10-year visions - Energy News (Mar 18) |
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No one knows what a gas utility will look like a quarter-century from now, as many states near deadlines for their 2050 climate goals.
In Minnesota, though, state regulators will soon expect utilities to at least have a vision for the next decade.
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Republican-Backed Community Solar Bill Lags Without Dem Support - Energy News (Oct 24, 2023) |
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A Wisconsin bill that would enable third-party-owned community solar has failed to progress this fall as backers had hoped, and time is running out for a hearing to be held before a key legislative deadline on Nov. 16.
In a twist on the typical politics of renewable ... Read more ...
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Federal funds can help Ohio electric co-ops cut costs and carbon emissions - Energy News (Aug 30, 2023) |
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A share of $9.7 billion in funding under the Inflation Reduction Act can help Ohio’s rural electric cooperatives save money while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Buckeye Power, which provides generation and transmission services for the group’s 25 rural electric ... Read more ...
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Gulf Coast could strengthen electric grid and economy with offshore wind - Energy News (Aug 29, 2023) |
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The following commentary was written by David Wooley, director of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley. See our commentary guidelines for more information.
The Gulf Coast’s power grid and economy share a common need: diversity. ... Read more ...
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In northern Minnesota, early adopters make the case for cold-climate heat pumps - Energy News (Aug 11, 2023) |
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Michael Overend and Lucy Grina love to show visitors around their home, a modest four-bedroom rambler, built in 1965 on a gravel road just north of Duluth, Minnesota.
The couple’s pride, however, did not always extend to one feature: the utility bills.
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Connecticut mapping tool aims to bring visibility to environmental justice communities - Energy News (Jul 18, 2023) |
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Connecticut is about to adopt a new environmental justice mapping tool designed to infuse equity into policy-making and empower residents of overburdened communities in their efforts to prevent exposure to additional hazards and improve overall quality of life.
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Dismay as Michigan hands out millions of dollars in ‘low carbon' grants for gas projects - Energy News (Jun 16, 2023) |
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Environmental groups charge that a $50 million pot of money intended for “low carbon” infrastructure projects was largely a gas industry subsidy floated under the guise of a clean energy initiative.
Last week, the state awarded $32 million of the funds to gas proposals ... Read more ...
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Advocates say conditions may be improving for rooftop solar in Wisconsin - Energy News (Apr 06, 2023) |
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Wisconsin solar advocates are applauding a recent decision by state regulators and hoping it is a sign the industry may finally get clarity on the legality of third-party-owned solar in the state.
Meanwhile, a bill has been introduced to allow third-party-owned community solar, and ... Read more ...
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Offshore wind isn't to blame for whale deaths - Energy News (Mar 20, 2023) |
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The death of a 43-foot North Atlantic right whale that washed up on Virginia Beach in mid-February was not caused by the offshore wind industry.
Still, that incident and other similar ones have heightened wind developers’ attention to protecting vulnerable marine mammals.
Dominion Energy is following a ... Read more ...
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In Puerto Rico, advocates want the clean energy revolution to be local - Energy News (Mar 17, 2023) |
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Editor’s note: Interviews with Alexis Massol González, Alberto Colón, and Rómulo Ortiz were conducted in Spanish. Their quotations and those from the Energy Bureau hearings were translated to English by the reporter, Carolina Baldin.
The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $1 billion to develop solar ... Read more ...
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A new solar model is bringing bigger savings to renters in Minneapolis - Energy News (Mar 13, 2023) |
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A Twin Cities solar co-op and affordable housing group are piloting a new approach to helping renters benefit from solar.
Cooperative Energy Futures recently completed rooftop solar installations on five Minneapolis apartment buildings owned by Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative, a nonprofit that provides ... Read more ...
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Carbon offset pact will put solar on dozens of Habitat for Humanity homes - Energy News (Mar 08, 2023) |
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Renovating a 50-year-old landmark structure in the heart of the nation’s capital is expected to save dozens of low-income Virginia families thousands of dollars on their electric bills.
It’s possible because of a new green pledge between neighboring entities that is simple yet trailblazing.
The District ... Read more ...
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In N.C.'s Orange County, an energy efficiency program advocates hope to replicate - Energy News (Mar 08, 2023) |
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In some ways, the success of the home energy efficiency project in this corner of Carrboro, North Carolina, began with the failure of Family Dollar.
In 2015, residents stopped the retail chain’s plan to pave over a stream to build a store on the edge of their neighborhood, about two miles from the state’s ... Read more ...
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Massachusetts energy efficiency programs should shift focus to emissions, critics say - Energy News (Feb 27, 2023) |
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Massachusetts lawmakers and advocates are looking at ways to overhaul the state’s energy efficiency collaborative Mass Save, arguing that the longstanding, utility-run program isn’t up to tackling the present-day climate crisis.
A bill (SD 2346) filed in the state Senate calls for a wholesale reorganization of ... Read more ...
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Study finds biogas is no silver bullet in Michigan's climate woes - Energy News (Jan 11, 2023) |
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This story was republished from Planet Detroit.
A recent industry report on the viability of developing biogas as an emissions-reducing energy source in Michigan highlights the controversial fuel’s limits. However, the state may still invest taxpayer resources in developing it.
The report found that, in ... Read more ...
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Utility corruption questions continue as HB 6 trial nears - Energy News (Jan 10, 2023) |
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This monthly newsletter provides updates on Ohio’s ongoing utility corruption scandal and is a joint project of Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism, and the nonprofit Energy News Network.
Got a question? Story idea? Send tips or comments to info@eyeonohio.com.
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Biogas expansion may compound worker risks - Energy News (Nov 16, 2022) |
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Bob Baenziger, Jr. had made many dives in dangerous conditions over the course of his career. He was trained in the U.S. Army and had long worked diving on offshore oil rigs.
But in June 2021, Baenziger lost his life on a diving job much closer to his Illinois home - in a sweltering, asphyxiating stew of manure on an Iowa family cattle farm. He was trying to fix a ... Read more ...
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North Dakota's ‘cleanest crypto' claim ignores state's fossil fuel-powered grid - Energy News (Nov 07, 2022) |
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North Dakota officials are marketing the state as a destination for cryptocurrency companies that want to clean up the industry’s image as a wasteful climate polluter, touting the state as a home for the “cleanest crypto on the planet.”
But energy experts say without specific commitments by companies to power data centers with new wind and solar farms, cryptocurrency mining in North ... Read more ...
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As utilities seek to relocate coal ash, will Black communities bear the burden? - Energy News (Sep 15, 2022) |
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On a rainy April Saturday morning in Alabama, people trickle into Uniontown City Hall for Unity Prayer. Soft gospel music plays from a small stereo as people take their seats. The pastor places his hands on the wooden pew and thanks God for the congregation’s health.
Carlene James, her husband and daughter are among the first to arrive and the last to leave. She started this monthly ... Read more ...
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FarmVille for agrivoltaics? Illinois team aims to teach solar concept with game - Energy News (Sep 08, 2022) |
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A team led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers is developing an educational game it hopes can inspire future farmers to think differently about solar power.
The app aims to teach kids the emerging concept of agrivoltaics, in which agricultural production is combined with solar photovoltaics. The game will be backed by science from the growing niche of research ... Read more ...
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‘High and dry': How toxic coal ash could be the next opportunity — or the next broken promise — for the Northern Cheyenne tribe - Energy News (Sep 06, 2022) |
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This article was first published by Native News Online.
After a 10-hour Wednesday shift at the coal-fired power plant in the small southeastern Montana town of Colstrip, Northern Cheyenne tribal member Jason Small drives three minutes down the road to the local taco truck. Dressed in a zip-up hoodie and jeans, he grabs a burrito and heads next door for a late-afternoon beer at the ... Read more ...
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Reuse can divert coal ash from landfills, but challenges remain - Energy News (Aug 31, 2022) |
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The amount of coal ash in the United States is hard to fathom. There are over 700 impoundments holding more than 2 billion cubic yards of ash - enough to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania one-half inch deep.
Coal ash includes heavy metals like chromium, arsenic and selenium - linked to higher rates of cancer and other diseases - that can leach into groundwater.
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In the Finger Lakes, a cryptocurrency mining plant billed as ‘green' has a dirty coal ash problem - Energy News (Aug 25, 2022) |
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The village of Dresden is nestled amid charming vineyards and the placid blue waters of Seneca Lake, the largest of Upstate New York’s Finger Lakes.
Wineries, breweries, dairy farms, and state parks dot the lake’s shoreline, making it a picture-perfect vacation destination.
But for local residents, the three auburn-colored smokestacks of Greenidge Generation’s plant towering ... Read more ...
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Tough talk and tough choices - Energy News (Aug 24, 2022) |
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In more than 700 spots nationwide, toxic coal ash is stored in ponds, dammed impoundments, landfills, and more unusual structures: a meteor crater, old limestone quarries, and the “Ash Island” rising in a lake popular with Tennessee boaters and swimmers.
The vast majority of these coal ash repositories are contaminating groundwater with dangerous pollutants, according to monitoring ... Read more ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL - Energy News (Aug 22, 2022) |
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Pearl Walker lives right next to the Interstate 55 exit on the south side of Memphis. Every day she watches over 100 rust-red trucks loaded with toxic coal ash from the nearby coal plant barrel past on their way to a local municipal landfill.
The landfill is the final resting place for 3.5 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash - enough to fill two and a half Empire State Buildings - ... Read more ...
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Department of Energy looks to Illinois to lead on low-income community solar - Energy News (Aug 18, 2022) |
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Illinois is one of five states where the U.S. Department of Energy is piloting a program to expand community solar for low-income households by leveraging an existing federal low-income heating and cooling assistance program.
Solar programs aimed at low-income customers in Illinois and elsewhere have often struggled because of bureaucratic and pragmatic barriers including verifying ... Read more ...
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Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents vow to keep up fight despite Manchin deal - Energy News (Aug 18, 2022) |
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Ecstatic, elated, ebullient. That smattering of descriptors captures the rare giddiness that enveloped relieved environmental advocates when President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law earlier this week.
Still, the joy of a long-awaited, $369 billion investment in taming global warming is tempered by lingering caution about the repercussions of a murky side bargain ... Read more ...
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Expansion of electric vehicle grid hits roadblocks in rural Washington - Energy News (Aug 11, 2022) |
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Just off Interstate 90 as it climbs the eastern side of the Cascades, Terra Sullivan and her family stumbled out of their car at an electric vehicle charging station outside Cle Elum. A thin layer of dirt coated their arms and legs, a souvenir from a few days of camping at Lake Chelan.
They joined the constant rotation of cars pulling through the charging site a couple miles from the ... Read more ...
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More Midwest banks see opportunity to finance solar, energy efficiency projects - Energy News (Aug 11, 2022) |
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Smaller, regional banks and credit unions are increasingly looking to help homeowners finance solar installations in a sign of growing recognition of the opportunities in clean energy finance.
In the Midwest, Iowa-based Decorah Bank & Trust is among the latest to begin marketing loans for solar and other clean energy projects. The community bank recently relaunched a digital subsidiary ... Read more ...
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Study provides deeper insights on the health impacts of utility shutoffs - Energy News (Aug 09, 2022) |
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Connecticut residents who struggle to pay their energy bills often suffer from physical and mental health issues as a result.
That is one of many findings in a new study of energy insecurity based on interviews with 22 residents of varying ages and races from around the state. The study was a joint undertaking by the Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of the Environment, Vermont ... Read more ...
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Farm owner and Indiana rural electric cooperative celebrate massive new solar array - Energy News (Aug 05, 2022) |
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Larry Graham found himself scrambling when a farmer who had been renting a parcel of his land for three decades “kind of bailed out.” Graham, like many farmers, had to find a way to keep earning revenue from the land that has been in his family since 1842.
Graham figured leasing it for solar panels would be a good fit, and started doing research online. He came across a company called ... Read more ...
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Questions about heat pumps? Connecticut offers free experts to help - Energy News (Aug 02, 2022) |
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Electric heat pumps are moving front and center in Connecticut’s energy efficiency program as the state seeks to speed adoption with a free consultation service and significant rebates.
EnergizeCT has contracted with Abode, an energy management company, to operate the consultation service and develop a statewide network of trained heat pump installers. Abode, based in Concord, ... Read more ...
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Greening a home — and the next generation — in Wisconsin - Energy News (Jul 14, 2022) |
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Editor’s note: The following story has been updated to clarify the home’s scoring on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Home Energy scale.
Most students in Advanced Placement courses spend months focused on getting ready for the AP test, which can yield college credit in high school.
A group of AP environmental science students at Oconomowoc High School in Wisconsin this year had a ... Read more ...
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As Biden's climate corps languishes, states move ahead with civilian service model - Energy News (Jul 13, 2022) |
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Maine is set to join a growing number of states in launching a service program aimed at mitigating and preparing for climate change.
The goal of the climate corps initiative is to both make a difference on climate issues and create career pathways for young people interested in conservation, renewable energy, or other related work. The effort will take on projects in areas including ... Read more ...
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In San Juan Basin, cultural, economic bonds slow fossil fuel transition - Energy News (Jun 30, 2022) |
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Norman Norvelle’s family rolled into New Mexico’s San Juan Basin in 1957, when he was just 11, their belongings loaded into a 1953 Chevrolet sedan and an aging, half-ton pickup truck.
At the time, Farmington - the region’s largest town - still lived up to its name. “It was a beautiful place,” Norvelle said. “There was orchards and truck gardens everywhere.” Norvelle remembers driving ... Read more ...
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Will carbon capture help clean New Mexico's power, or delay its transition? - Energy News (Jun 29, 2022) |
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As New Mexico lawmakers were putting the finishing touches on landmark legislation to help workers and communities transition from the closure of the state’s largest coal plant, the city of Farmington had other plans.
“We have reached a milestone that few people thought remotely possible,” City Manager Rob Mayes told the local newspaper in February 2019. An agreement was announced ... Read more ...
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New Mexico's coal transition law still faces an uncertain timeline - Energy News (Jun 28, 2022) |
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New Mexico was on track to become a model for phasing out coal power without abandoning those who have worked, lived, or breathed under its smokestacks.
The state’s largest utility had already announced plans to divest from coal. A new state law would hold it to that pledge while also providing millions of dollars in funding for workers and affected communities.
“This is a really ... Read more ...
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