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The Vermont Climate Council voted 19-4 to adopt an Initial Climate Action Plan with the expectation that it will update it next year.

Environmental groups have been urging the California Air Resources Board to include pesticide reduction strategies in its 2022 climate change scoping plan.

Connecticut Environmental advocates vow to maintain pressure on lawmakers to pass enabling legislation for the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program.

Gov. Ned Lamont said he would not pursue the TCI-P next year, arguing that rising gas prices make the enabling legislation “a pretty tough rock to push."

Washington officials have begun the nuts-and-bolts rulemaking on three major climate change bills the state’s legislature passed in April.

Discussion topics at the NARUC annual meeting ran the gamut from affordable electrification to resilience, supply chain snarls and pipeline infrastructure.

ACORE's annual Grid Forum focused on infrastructure policy, transmission planning, energy markets and the Biden administration’s agenda.

A petition challenges the California Air Resources Board's inclusion of dairy-manure biomethane as potentially eligible for credits under the agency’s LCFS.

The Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority approved $7.5 million for a new energy cooperative on Molokai to broaden residents’ access to renewable energy.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Conference to phase out gas-powered cars and coal-fired power plants.