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Trump takes aim at yet another offshore wind project

By Sarah Shemkus

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This roundup of energy news headlines comes from our Northeast Energy News newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.

WIND

  • The Trump administration asks a federal judge to invalidate the Biden administration’s approval of US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project, saying the original process didn’t properly account for threats to commercial fishing and search-and-rescue operations. (Reuters)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

  • Maine aquaculture innovators who use quieter, cleaner electric boats to tend to their oyster beds hope their experiences will pave the way for greater adoption of battery-powered vessels in the industry. (Canary Media)

  • Massachusetts is not on track to meet its electric vehicle adoption goals — a linchpin of its greenhouse gas reduction strategy — without more aggressive action from legislators. (Streetsblog)

BUILDINGS

  • An historic terminal at Newark Airport goes all-electric, adding heat pumps, electric boilers, and EV charging stations as part of a project that shows ​“the art of what’s possible” when retrofitting older buildings. (Canary Media)

FEDERAL ACTION

  • U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat, works with a Republican legislator to push a bill that would streamline and limit environmental reviews on proposed major projects, such as transmission infrastructure and gas pipelines. (Inside Climate News)

SOLAR

  • Cohoes, New York, launches the state’s first floating solar array, a 3.2-megawatt installation atop a 10-acre pond that is expected to save the city as much as $600,000 in electricity costs each year. (Chronogram)

  • Residents of a western Massachusetts town express concerns about the tradeoff of cutting down 30 acres of trees to build a planned solar farm, as well as worries about fire hazards and noise. (Daily Hampshire Gazette)

DATA CENTERS

  • Grid operator PJM introduces a proposal under which large data centers would not be guaranteed electricity during a power emergency; businesses, governors, and consumer watchdogs object. (Associated Press)

  • As Pennsylvania prepares to welcome a surge of new data centers, state legislators grapple with how to protect residents from the possibility of rising power costs and other potential impacts. (Inside Climate News)

  • Attendees at an AI summit in Pennsylvania discuss the importance of generating more electricity to power the growing number of data centers in the state and beyond, but the environmental impacts draw little discussion. (WESA)

FOSSIL FUELS

  • A revived plan to build a natural gas pipeline into New York will cost residents of the state $1.25 billion and won’t create the promised local jobs, a new report concludes. (Gothamist)

PUBLIC HEALTH

  • Massachusetts lawmakers consider legislation aimed at boosting air quality monitoring to identify hazardous pollution from industry and traffic. (State House News Service)

GRID

  • Panelists and public commenters criticize grid operator ISO New England for a perceived lack of transparency and accountability, as well as not doing enough to embrace distributed energy resources. (RTO Insider)

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