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Enbridge says using a gas-fired turbine for the Weymouth Compressor station is more cost-effective than an electric motor, but stakeholders disagree.

A pilot project in Va. found that electrification retrofits on low- and moderate-income homes cut energy consumption but not always costs and carbon emissions.

Vermont Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale first introduced an environmental justice bill in 2007, but the state hasn't codified an official policy on the issue yet.

DOE's LEAP program will provide technical assistance to help environmental justice, low-income and coalfield communities develop clean energy projects.

NYSERDA now has a new goal of ensuring the state’s Clean Energy Fund delivers 40% of benefits of spending to disadvantaged communities.

Environmentalists and climate justice advocates said they support New York’s agricultural and land use policy proposals, but they also offered suggestions.

A critic of hydropower says politicians often make “vacuous statements about a particular energy source being clean, but that is not the case.”

Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking ways to dispense $50 million in public funding to support community-based renewable energy efforts.

The Vermont Climate Council heard recommendations for following New York’s model on establishing a social cost of carbon for climate action plan analyses.

Leading lawmakers in Connecticut have not ruled out a special session this fall that could provide advocates another chance to push for passage of the TCI-P.