States will receive more than $600 million in funding for EV charging in 2022, the first installment of $5 billion promised in the infrastructure bill.

State and federal officials say they are laser-focused on the millions of dollars that will soon be going to states from the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

A Washington state bill would create an interagency council to manage the adoption of electric vehicles and the federal funds for related infrastructure.

The Western Climate Initiative is one option the Vermont Climate Council will explore to replace TCI-P in its Climate Action Plan released in December.

The U.S. has a diverse range of energy resources, and all are critical to the nation’s clean energy future, said industry reps speaking at a USEA conference.

The DOE-DOT Joint Office will take the first steps in rolling out the IIJA’s $7.5 billion in funding for a national EV charging network next month.

U.S. carbon emissions were up last year, but EPRI executives were optimistic about the country’s ability to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030.

DOE announced the launch of the Building a Better Grid Initiative, aimed at building out long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that the nation’s hydropower is undervalued in power markets and under-incentivized in federal policymaking.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed an executive order on climate with directives related to transportation, buildings, resilience, jobs and land use.