Public DCFC charging station in Michigan (excl. Tesla) | HDR Inc. Two Michigan local distribution utilities have squared off with Michigan Electric Transmission Co. (METC) over the transmission company’s request to spend $15 million on a pilot project to build charging facilities for long-haul medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. In...

The Maryland legislature failed to reach an agreement to increase the state’s 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target Monday after the House of Delegates and Senate deadlocked over the Climate Solutions Now Act (SB 414). Sen. Paul Pinsky (D) — lead sponsor of the Senate bill and chair of the Education,...

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is preparing a draft proposal on how to encourage the installation of EV chargers for heavy-duty electric trucks statewide, as a Newark-based trucking company is developing a project that could significantly advance the use of electric trucks in the Port of New York...

President Biden’s opening bid on the 2022 budget makes good on his promise to use a "whole of government" approach to address climate change, calling for an additional $14 billion in "climate change investments." Biden’s $1.5 trillion discretionary budget request released Friday is an attempt to reverse a decade of...

Tesla is hoping New York legislators will pass a bill this session to overturn the state’s ban on direct-to-consumer sales of zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) by manufacturers. ZEV manufacturers are constrained in New York, and “that seems to be really out of sync with [the state’s] broader policy goals,” Albert Gore,...

A new survey from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy finds that only six states currently have policies encouraging or requiring equity and environmental justice considerations to be built into new programs for rolling out electric vehicle chargers. According to the report, since 2012, utility commissions in 25 states...

New Jersey environmentalists are urging state authorities to move faster to replace existing diesel buses with electric ones, as the state’s mass transportation agency, NJ Transit, embarks on a pilot program that will be its first electric bus initiative. The state would reap extensive health benefits and remove "significant environmental...

Bills approved in Virginia’s recently concluded 2021 legislative session will tighten vehicle emission standards, promote electric vehicles and streamline permitting for energy storage projects. Lawmakers also created a program for developing renewable energy on brownfields and former coal mines and ordered an inventory of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Much...

Small-volume car manufacturers wouldn’t be required to sell zero-emission vehicles in Nevada under the state’s proposed ZEV program, but if they did, they could earn credits to bank or transfer through the state market. In contrast, large-volume automakers would be required to earn credits for the sale of ZEVs. Medium-volume...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office launched a new collegiate competition to find solutions for de-risking and increasing the market viability of direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines. The $4 million Geothermal Lithium Extraction prize is designed to help the U.S. build out its lithium supply chain for...