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ACORE Panelists: Resilient Tx Needed for Severe Weather
Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.
WKYC Channel 3
DOJ Orders $230 Million Fine for FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy has agreed to pay a fine for its role in the H.B. 6 scandal, which federal prosecutors described as the largest bribery scandal in Ohio history.
Sunrise Maine
Solving for Equity in the Rates and Climate Policy Equation
Given Maine's ambitious climate policies, one state regulator sees a need to reconsider how the costs of those policies are allocated to ratepayers.
Pa. DEP
Pennsylvania DEP Touts Gains on EVs, Solar
Pennsylvania's environmental secretary highlighted electric vehicle and solar initiatives promoted by the department at an Advisory Council meeting.
City of New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell
$536M in Pandemic Aid Tagged for Climate, Energy Across New England
Vermont and Maine will put $136 million in federal aid into climate and energy initiatives; Massachusetts is looking to spend $400 million on those sectors.
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Glick Works to Strengthen Relationship with NARUC
FERC Chair Richard Glick is seeking ‘peace, love and understanding’ with state regulators as work on easing transmission issues begins.
Texas Admin Monitor
Texas Public Utility Commission Briefs: July 15, 2021
Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.
NRG Energy
New Yorkers Oppose NRG Repowering Astoria NatGas Peaker
New Yorkers filed 66 separate comments opposing NRG Energy’s proposal to repower its 502-MW Astoria natural gas generating facility in Queens.
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Massachusetts Sets 1st Emission-reduction Goal for Efficiency Program
The current draft energy efficiency plan for Massachusetts does not envision meeting a new program-specific emission-reduction goal set by the state.
Central Main Power
Overheard at 3rd Annual EBC New England Energy Leadership Conference
Regional energy policy leaders presented their plans and priorities at the Environmental Business Council of New England Energy Leadership Conference.

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