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Jim Young of Guidehouse says NYC cooling load will be 14% less/home in 2050 than it is now with advanced building technologies and efficiency policies.

Activists and consumer advocates in New York want to see less industry influence on clean energy policy recommendations to the state.

Sen. Michael Barrett says that “from a legislative view, there is no one focused on responsibility” for the role Mass Save plays in electrification.

At Gov. Dan McKee’s request, Rhode Island’s climate council will move from quarterly to monthly meetings.

The United Nations convened a “high-level dialogue on energy,” the first gathering of leaders at the U.N. in more than 40 years devoted solely to energy issues.

The site of the Weymouth natural gas compressor station previously hosted both a coal facility and a fuel storage tank.

Gov. Charlie Baker joined state and local officials to announce the release of the 2021 MassCEC Offshore Wind Workforce Assessment.

NYC officials are integrating environmental justice into all aspects of its decision-making to abate policy's disproportionate impact on low-income communities.

Gov. Kathy Hochul directed NYSERDA to develop a distributed solar roadmap this fall to reach a new 10-GW goal for the NY-Sun program.

Oregon should move swiftly to adopt California’s stringent emissions rules for trucks, testifiers at a public hearing hosted by the state’s Department of Environmental Quality said.