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UN Climate Report Hits Home Across US
The U.N.'s latest report on climate change hit home across the U.S. as dozens of news outlets published stories on how their regions are being affected.
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As Climate Changes, Weather Becomes Obsession for New England Grid, State Officials
Last year's events in Texas, and the growth of renewables on New England's grid, have ISO-NE and states looking at weather more closely than ever.
UN IPCC
IPCC Climate Report: ‘Half Measures No Longer an Option’
The intensifying impacts of climate change are outpacing nature’s and societies’ abilities to adapt to or mitigate them, according to the latest U.N. report.
Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities
Researchers: New Policies, Data Needed to Respond to Climate Threats
Government officials and utility planners lack the tools and policies needed to address climate change's increasing threat, researchers told the EBA.
NERC
NERC Identifies 10-Year Challenges from Weather, Resource Mix
Severe weather and rapidly diversifying generation will challenge electric reliability in the next decade, NERC said in its Long-Term Reliability Assessment.
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Overheard at gridCONNEXT 2021
Attendees of GridWise Alliance’s gridCONNEXT were upbeat as they heard about a high-tech future in which everything is electrified, digitized and clean.
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NY Climate Action Council Focuses on Consumer Impacts
New York officials tweaked the state’s draft scoping plan on climate action to include cost/benefit and consumer impacts analyses as soon as possible.
PSEG
New Jersey Pension Fund Backs Climate Strategy
The agency that manages New Jersey’s $1 billion state pension fund has codified a strategy to reduce carbon emissions at companies backed by the fund.
Jesse Juchtzer
California Looks to Cloud Seeding for Hydropower
A California Energy Commission workshop examined the potential for cloud seeding to increase precipitation and hydropower in the drought-stricken state.
Gov. Phil Murphy
NJ’s Murphy Expected to Stay the Course on Clean Energy Policies
Gov. Phil Murphy’s narrow margin of victory in New Jersey's gubernatorial election is not expected to affect his sweeping clean energy initiatives.

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